Re: Zutils vs single compressor utilities

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi Antonio,

Am 02.01.2011 um 21:44 schrieb Antonio Diaz Diaz:

> Eric Blake wrote:
>> As long as it is a configure-time option, with the default being the way
>> it was before, but the ability to change it is easy, then distros will
>> use the option to make the change.
> 
> Some distros are already distributing zutils and it seems they are having 
> problems that neither a "--enable-programs=no" nor a "--rename-programs" can 
> solve in a backwards-compatible way. They are "fixing" this by diverse means.
> 
> Debian is renaming (to ${FILE}.gzip) the programs in gzip when installing 
> zutils[1].
> [1] http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/zutils
> 
> OpenCSW is renaming (capitalizing) the programs in zutils[2].
> [2] http://www.opencsw.org/search/zutils/

When you as upstream change the naming as you proposed we will follow
that scheme and deprecate our intermediate solution. As there has been
no stable release from OpenCSW since we added zutils there will be no
need for us to add compat-links to our existing solution. In short:
Please don't be concerned about the OpenCSW solution :-)


Best regards

  -- Dago (OpenCSW zutils maintainer)