debranding seamonkey

[Alexander Sack]

On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 11:04:07AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> 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.

Does firefox already have such code I can just copy?

 - Alexander

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