debranding seamonkey

Mike Hommey mh at glandium.org
Sun Oct 8 09:04:07 UTC 2006


On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 10:40:21AM +0200, Alexander Sack <asac at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 09:43:19AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:31:55AM +0200, Alexander Sack <asac at jwsdot.com> wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 07, 2006 at 01:23:44AM +0200, Hendrik-Jan Heins wrote:
> > > > I was thinking "LakeApe" ;-)
> > > 
> > > IceApe would be more in line with IceWeasel and SnowDove (Thunderbird)
> > > ... and our topic for debranded mozilla apps could be somewhat be "IceAge"
> > > :)
> > 
> > So, may I rename all this stuff iceape ?
> 
> If you have time to do so, please go ahead. I will rename tbird to use
> IceDove.
> 
> I think as display name we should use CamelCase (IceApe).
> 
> Anyway, I guess I will not make the complete directory switch for
> IceDove, but just create links where appropriate - though I might
> change my mind on this every minute. How bad would it be to keep the
> current directory hierarchy and just change package name as well as
> application display name + introducing links for configuration
> directory, and main binary?

I think it's still better to rename the old directories and create a
link in preinst, so that packages still using the old location are not
lost, but so that on the long term, we can easily drop the symlink and
forget about the old names.

Mike



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