[pkg-GNUstep-maintainers] Re: GNUStep namespace pollution in Debian?

Eric Heintzmann eric@gnustep.fr.st
Mon, 14 Jun 2004 17:50:42 +0100


On 2004-06-14 18:39:36 +0200 Alex Perez <aperez@student.santarosa.edu> 
wrote:

> Eric Heintzmann wrote:
> 
> ...snip...
> 
>>>> Well, this solution doen't satisfy everyone and doesn't solve the 
>>>> naming 
>>>> problem on frameworks (like netclasses) and libs.
>>> 
>>> netclasse.framework_version.deb ?
>> 
>> Already refused (like addresses-framework and addressview-framework).
> Jesus christ, do they give you any justification for WHY, or are they 
> just 
> getting off on issuing fatwas?
They just say:
"As per recent discusions on debian-devel, the package name 
"addressview-framework" is
too generic and abuse of the shared resource, package namespace.

The later may be controversial: the former should not be."

Or are you the one who has refused it?
No. I just try to colect opinions to solve this (ridiculous) issue.

	Eric