[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#674695: contains a "sql" program?!

[Andreas Tille]

Control: tags -1 upstream
Control: forwarded -1 Ole Tange <ole at tange.dk>

Hi Ole,

I admit I do not agree at all with the wording in the below bug report
which is really old but it seems never forwarded to you.  So I'd like to
bring this to your attention since I agree that a program name `sql` is
not the best choice.  I'd recommend to use something like

    parallel_db  or
    parallel_sql

instead.  I do not think that it is a good idea if we change the name
of the script in Debian only so I'd like to discuss this issue with you
in this bug report (see e-mail address).

Kind regards

      Andreas.

Am Sat, May 26, 2012 at 03:25:44PM -0400 schrieb Joey Hess:
> Package: parallel
> Version: 20120422-1
> Severity: normal
> 
> SQL has existed since 1970. Surely this is absurd namespace pollution?
> Calling a program "sql" is somewhere in a spectrum between calling
> a program "www" and calling a program "server". No point in that
> spectrum makes much sense.
> 
> And the parallel to parallel seems tenuous at best, indeed
> it seems limited to it being able to be called in parallel in order to
> drop tables.
> 
> (... Which makes me wonder when GNU Parallel will include GNU rm?
> And will you make it slower, broken, and divert the regular one without
> warning the packages you break, like you did with moreutils and
> ikiwiki-hosting? Oh, pardon the rant ...)
> 
> -- System Information:
> Debian Release: wheezy/sid
>   APT prefers unstable
>   APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
> Architecture: i386 (i686)
> 
> Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-2-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
> Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
> Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
> 
> Versions of packages parallel depends on:
> ii  perl          5.14.2-9
> ii  perl-modules  5.14.2-9
> 
> parallel recommends no packages.
> 
> parallel suggests no packages.
> 
> -- no debconf information
> 
> -- 
> see shy jo



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