"Gerald B. Cox" <gbcox@xxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Dave Love <d.love@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> Why are most people going to use superlu-dist when that's not the proper >> name of the software? I'm not familiar with a SuperLU user community, >> but I think I can speak about DL_POLY as a DL veteran; I packaged it as >> "dl_poly" and wouldn't expect people to call it "dl-poly" (outside >> Debian) or "dlpoly". The majority don't have underscores as part of >> their proper name, but the guidelines cover ones that do. > > > Who are most people? Users of the software, for whom I'm packaging stuff. I get the impression some people don't think they're very relevant, and I increasingly come across things which make life hard supporting them. > Nobody is changing the name of the software. As far as a user is concerned, you are. > That is entirely under the control of upstream. Who I think deserve respect for their chosen names as far as possible/reasonable, even if they're not (former) colleagues. > We're discussing how it is represented in > the Fedora repository. > That is the purview of the Fedora project, not upstream. And clearly there isn't agreement in Fedora, even on what the guidelines actually say, which was my point. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
