[pkg-lynx-maint] Bug#490265: package name should be lynx (Re: Bug#490265)

Guillem Jover guillem at debian.org
Sun May 3 23:15:01 UTC 2015


Hi!

On Sat, 2013-06-01 at 16:56:55 +0100, Justin B Rye wrote:
> Please go ahead and rename the package "lynx-cur" to "lynx".
> 
> There is only one package in Debian providing a /usr/bin/lynx
> executable; users should be able to find the description for that
> package by asking for "apt-cache show lynx".  Users should *not* need
> to know ancient history about the packaging of different upstream
> branches of lynx just to find the package's name!

I concur! Given that there's a new maintainer team and we are at the
beginning of the release, now might be a good time to tackle this. :)

Thanks,
Guillem



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