Bug#788307: pkg-perl-tools: Alternate dependency on 'mr'

Richard Hartmann richih.mailinglist at gmail.com
Wed Jun 10 08:12:58 UTC 2015


On Wed, Jun 10, 2015 at 9:56 AM, Axel Beckert <abe at debian.org> wrote:

> *sigh* I've never understood why Joey changed the name. "mr" was
> perfect. "myrepos" sounds as horrible as "myspace". O.o

Me neither. I agree.

I am sure it's SEO reasons, and that makes sense to some degree, but
it will always be mr to me.


> But anyway: Feel free to do so.

The way I understand the archive, I have to.


> In contrary -- it eases backports. (Which is also the primary reason
> why I put it in there although the renaming already happened when the
> first pkg-perl-tools package was uploaded.)

I didn't consider that. I will do the same for vcsh, actually. To, you
guessed it, ease backports.


Thanks!
Richard



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