
On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 6:50 PM, Michael Ströder <michael@stroeder.com> wrote:
Todd Rme wrote:
You are talking like there is one uniform naming policy across distros that openSUSE is unilateraly violating. There isn't.
If you're using your favourite search engine you will see within seconds that you don't have to teach me about the differences of various Linux distros. I already deal with that in lots of cases. But I also know the limits and the enormous effort.
Especially if you start renaming lots of packages on a platform you break lots existing configuration management.
First, you are talking like this is some sudden change we just sprung on you. This has been the policy for four years. What you are asking us to do is revert a long-standing policy and change dozens, if not hundreds, of package names, break all of our tools, and take us out of line with the rest of the python software community, just to avoid fixing the names of a couple of packages that haven't been brought in line with this policy yet. And you are asking us to do all this to fix a problem that is probably not even going to be an issue much longer since distros seem to be converging on an automatic way to handle provides. Second, you are acting like openSUSE is some exceptionally terrible group for changing our naming conventions. But Arch changed their policy around the same time we did in a much larger way than us (changed the names of all their python packages), and Fedora changed their policy in a larger way than us just a couple months ago (changing the names of all of their python 2 packages). But I don't see you on those mailing lists demanding they reverse their existing policies and change all of their package names back to what they were before. So what is so exceptionally bad about openSUSE's change compared to other changes over the last 5 years or so that we and we alone need to change a huge number of package names to something else? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org