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Request Normalize-Audio
curaga:
True, but so far I don't think we have many renamed binaries. In fact the opposite, base binaries have been renamed to prevent conflicts with external ones (ab).
edit: I see the TCZ version has it changed, curious.
SamK:
--- Quote from: curaga on February 11, 2013, 02:57:49 AM ---edit: I see the TCZ version has it changed, curious.
--- End quote ---
Perhaps the difference wasn't described clearly enough in reply #5 above. To help clarify it:
TCZ and Debian
* Extension/package name=normalize-audio
* Executable name=normalize-audioSCM
* Extension/package name=normalize
* Executable name=normalize
Jason W:
I remember reading in the Debian mailing list on the normalize issue, and what was brought up was that someone thought that the name normalize was too generic. All I can find that would conflict with the normalize binary is the dna-qc package, an app from 1993 which is only available for FreeBSD. In my opinion, that is a very obscure app, and if it was in Debian then perhaps it should have been the one to have it's binary renamed.
Those who use Debian/Ubuntu are going to expect normalize-audio, everyone else will be expecting normalize. Are we going to rename firefox to iceweasel? Or rename seamonkey to iceape? Scripts that use those Debian browsers will also work no where else.
Like the other distros I mentioned earlier, I by far prefer to use the upstream package and binary name, preferably using lower case letters. I definitely think we should at least be free to use the upstream name.
Jason W:
But I see your point about the scm and tcz repo using different naming conventions. In this case, perhaps those packages that do not use the upstream package name should be encouraged to use the upstream package name that most distros use. Mose distros use upstream names in all lower case, the lower case making it easy to remember and type out, and that is also my preference.
gerald_clark:
Why not just add a symlink and forget it?
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