[Gpe-list] libschedule -> libgpeschedule ?

Joseph J. McCarthy mccarthy at granular.che.pitt.edu
Mon Oct 8 14:21:05 CEST 2007


I think I might be the maintainer (too lazy to go to my other computer 
to look it up) and it sounds fine to me.

Joe

Florian Boor wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> sorry for the long delay, I should have answered that earlier.
> 
> Neil Williams wrote:
>> Re-sending this without a GnuPG signature as a last-ditch effort to get
>> it through whatever filtering is preventing me posting to the list. If
>> this gets through, please can someone look at the attachment detection
>> code so that GnuPG signatures are allowed? Ta.
> 
> you are right, we had this problem before but I must admit that I have no idea
> which Mailman setting does prevent this.
> 
>> It's not always ideal to choose a common word for a library package and
>> when I first packaged libschedule for Debian (aiming eventually at
>> Emdebian), I wanted to make sure that libschedule was clearly identified
>> as related to GPE and not related to lots of other programs out there
>> that may have something to do with scheduling but not GPE. So I renamed
>> libschedule as libgpeschedule using patches for Debian.
> 
> I think we should apply that upstream - any opinion from the maintainer?
> 
>> libsoundgen and libhandoff are OK. I know GPE has been developing
>> nicely as a stand-alone environment but if having GPE in Debian is a
>> GoodThing(tm) then it would be nice to consider issues outside GPE when
>> creating or transitioning libraries.
> 
> These two are not really specific or depending on other GPE bits, so I would try
> to avoid changing their names unless there is a conflict with another package.
> 
> Greetings
> 
> Florian
> 

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