Bug#529774: [fons at kokkinizita.net: Re: 'jconv' name clash]

Arnout Engelen arnouten at bzzt.net
Fri Aug 28 06:14:15 UTC 2009


I contacted the upstream of jack-jconv, he is OK with renaming the executable
(and the whole package) to 'jconvolver':

----- Forwarded message from Fons Adriaensen <fons at kokkinizita.net> -----
On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 12:09:07PM +0200, Arnout Engelen wrote:
> As you may be aware the Debian folks noticed there are 2 'jconv' executables
> in Debian now: your convolution engine and a tool for converting japanese
> characters.
> 
> Right now it seems the japanese jconv is more popular, and used in various 
> scripts (wdg-html-validator and tidy-proxy).
> 
> How would you feel about renaming jconv, for example to 'jconvolve(r)' or 
> 'jack-conv'?

OK, from next release the binaries will be jconvolver and fconvolver, and
the whole source directory will be jconvolver-x.y.z.

----- End forwarded message -----





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