[Pkg-silc-devel] Bits from DebCamp - Binary package names

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

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On Fri 2007-06-15 08:44:11 -0400, David Ammouial wrote:

> Thanks for the great work!

Yes, thanks, Jérémy!

I think your package rename proposal is a good one.

> Jérémy wrote:
> 
>> But if we do that, I would rather rename the binary package produced by
>> "silc-client" to "silc", for the sake of consistency and make it Provide
>> "silc-client" as well.

I also agree with this.

> Having the same name for a protocol and for one particular implementation
> (be it the first one) has historically been done several times (talk, irc,
> jabber), but imho it should be avoided, because it can be confusing,
> especially when other implementations start to show up.

I agree that it can be confusing.  Unfortunately, the client binary
produced by the typical silc package is actually /usr/bin/silc.

> I would suggest "silcc", as the counterpart of "silcd", or maybe
> "irssilc", since this implementation is based on irssi.

installing silcc but having to run /usr/bin/silc is even more
confusing.  My vote:

 * Definitely rename the silc-server package to silcd, which Provides:
   silc-server

 * Either keep silc-client with the same name (to avoid the confusion
   David describes above) or rename it to silc (to align with the name
   of the binary, since we're already clobbering one namespace).  I
   prefer the latter myself.

my $0.02,

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