Bug#451600: libpar-packer-perl: /usr/bin/par.pl vs. policy 10.4

Damyan Ivanov dmn at debian.org
Sat Nov 17 19:55:56 UTC 2007


-=| Niko Tyni, Sat, Nov 17, 2007 at 01:50:38PM +0200 |=-
> As discussed on debian-perl, the name of /usr/bin/par.pl doesn't
> comply with policy 10.4, which says that the .pl suffix should be removed.
> 
> Since /usr/bin/par is already taken by the par package, we need something
> else. Russ Allberry suggested par-archive, which sounds good to me. Unless
> there are objections, I'm going to go forward with that and rename the
> script.
> 
> [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2007/11/msg00035.html

Can we have upstream's opinion on this? At least as a measure to inform
them that Debian is renaming par.pl. Perhaps they can even suggest a
name (and possibliy adopt it in future release)?

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