[openstack-dev] Fwd: Fwd: Debian people don't like bash8 as a project name (Bug#748383: ITP: bash8 -- bash script style guide checker)

Thierry Carrez thierry at openstack.org
Fri Jun 13 08:27:01 UTC 2014


Stefano Maffulli wrote:
> On Thu 12 Jun 2014 03:53:35 PM PDT, Morgan Fainberg wrote:
>> I understand your concerns here, and I totally get what you’re driving
>> at, but in the packaging world wouldn’t this make sense to call it
>> "python-bash8"? Now the binary, I can agree (for reasons outlined)
>> should probably not be named ‘bash8’, but the name of the “command”
>> could be separate from the packaging / project name.
> 
> As a user, I hate to have to follow the abstruse reasoning of a random 
> set of developers forcing a packager to pick a name for the package 
> that is different than the executable. A unicorn dies every time 
> `apt-get install sillypackage && sillypackage` results in "File not 
> found". Dang!  that was my favorite unicorn.

Well, in this precise case, no random set of developers is forcing any
packager to do anything.

We develop a Python library called "bash8" (with an executable named
"bash8") and a packager is trying to force us to rename it to something
else, because its distribution doesn't like the name we chose.

It's also interesting to note that in all cases (whether we follow
Thomas suggestion or not), the Debian *binary* package will be named
"python-bash8", which is apparently what you don't like. That's not
because "a random set of developers is forcing upstream", that's due to
Debian's own Python packaging rules.

-- 
Thierry Carrez (ttx)



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