[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#667161: Bug#667161: FASTX-Toolkit faisl to build with GCC-4.7.

[Charles Plessy]

Le Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:21:53PM +0200, Andreas Tille a écrit :
> 
> When preparing the recent package I noticed that you are providing
> scripts featuring language extensions (.pl and .sh).  Debian Policy[1]
> says:
> 
>     When scripts are installed into a directory in the system PATH, the
>     script name should not include an extension such as .sh or .pl that
>     denotes the scripting language currently used to implement it.
> 
> and there are several good reasons to follow this advise.  Could you
> imagine to drop this extension in the script names - IMHO this would be
> a good idea as long as fastx-toolkit is 0.0.x numbered.

Dear Andreas and Gordon,

please do not change the names unless a transition period of 1-2 years
is planned where both names are available together.

That recommendation of Debian Policy is a pure disaster, that makes Debian
systems incompatible with all the rest of the world.

Cheers,

-- 
Charles Plessy
Debian Med packaging team,
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med
Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan