On 20 July 2011 04:54, Heiko Baums <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I have followed it. But I also told you that it's not a problem in my > opinion if people have to do some manual work for upgrading it once. > Just post an announcement about the changes to the News section of the > website, the mailing lists and/or the wiki. > > This is only necessary once. We all agree on the proper naming for that. It's just that it has become a technical problem now due to the initial naming, and to work around that technical problem, there's not enough justification. If it were part of a larger software group, like Python and its modules, then there'd be ample justification (like "consistency"). Why? Because, 'virtualbox-additions' would be just as confusing as 'virtualbox-guest-additions' to a newcomer. To an existing user, a name change may look good, but would introduce a one-time annoying breakage. We cannot justify the extra work and that breakage in order to introduce this name change, since it won't be a problem to maintain the current name (which isn't "wrong") in the first place, while there are no other packages or conditions _requiring_ us to name the package as such. > Nevertheless, do you really need versioned replaces? I mean Arch Linux > is a rolling release distro which contains only one version (the > latest) of each package in the repos. So you can assume that people > always use the most up-to-date versions. I don't think you understood this. Versioned replaces will solve replacements (see ML discussion linked in BR). -- GPG/PGP ID: 8AADBB10
