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Package name eMail or not?
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| Millis Miller 2004-10-28, 5:52 pm |
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There was some discussion [1] about an ITP I filed last year for a package
called email [2], which suffered from an inappropriate license and name
problems.
The upstream has since released a newer version under the GPL and has
indicated to me a willingness to have the package called eMail.
My question is if this change of capitalization acceptable to Debian, or
would it still insist on a different package name? It has been recently
accepted into Cygwin with the email name [3] and upstream is, for that
reason, not too keen to radically alter it. If eMail is not reasonable name,
can anyone suggest one that is?
Thanks,
Millis
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-deve...6/msg01651.html
[2] http://email.cleancode.org/
[3] http://sources.redhat.com/ml/cygwin...0/msg00385.html
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| Henning Makholm 2004-10-30, 8:46 pm |
| Scripsit "Millis Miller" <millis@faztek.org>
> The upstream has since released a newer version under the GPL and has
> indicated to me a willingness to have the package called eMail.
> My question is if this change of capitalization acceptable to Debian, or
> would it still insist on a different package name?
A package in Debian cannot be called "eMail" - package names must be
all lower case (policy §5.6.6)
Having a package called just "email" would be very confusing for our
users. I suggest you qualify the package name with e.g. the author's
name [given that the author seems obstinately unwilling to give his
software a non-generic name] or something like that.
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