From: Sebastian Kuzminsky <seb@highlab.com>
To: Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff@gmail.com>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Debian packaging for 0.99.4
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:44:29 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1E3Juf-0005YZ-PR@highlab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050811203248.GC5411@kiste.smurf.noris.de>
Matthias Urlichs <smurf@smurf.noris.de> wrote:
> Another possible solution: Rename git's git to X and install ours as Y.
> Ask the user which should be symlinked to /usr/bin/git, if both are
> installed, via the existing "alternatives" system.
I suggested this on debian-devel, and was told that update-alternatives is
not to be used for programs that do not do the same thing. Debian Policy
Manual, section 10.1.
It's ok for vim and nvi to use update-alternatives to pick who gets
to be vi, because no matter which alternative is active, running "vi"
does what you expect. It's not ok to use it for git and GNU Interactive
Tools, because they do such different things.
Thanks for working with me on this, I appreciate all the suggestions.
I hope we can make Debian not suck at git.
--
Sebastian Kuzminsky
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-11 20:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-06 1:52 My Itchlist Junio C Hamano
2005-08-06 2:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-06 6:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-08-06 19:04 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-08-13 20:05 ` Petr Baudis
2005-08-07 6:00 ` GIT 0.99.4 (preview) Junio C Hamano
2005-08-08 3:18 ` Horst von Brand
2005-08-08 9:09 ` GIT 0.99.4 preview: current status Junio C Hamano
2005-08-08 17:38 ` Request for help from binary packaging people Junio C Hamano
2005-08-08 18:20 ` Sergey Vlasov
2005-08-08 18:58 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-08 22:02 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-08-08 22:21 ` Chris Wright
2005-08-08 22:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-08-10 21:15 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-08-10 22:11 ` [PATCH] Debian packaging for 0.99.4 Matthias Urlichs
2005-08-10 22:56 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-08-10 23:39 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-08-11 3:17 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-08-11 4:44 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-08-11 5:01 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-08-11 6:12 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-08-11 5:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-11 5:30 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-08-11 5:48 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-08-11 16:04 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-08-11 16:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-11 19:06 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-08-11 20:15 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-08-11 20:23 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-08-11 20:32 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-08-11 20:44 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky [this message]
2005-08-11 20:24 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-08-11 20:32 ` Sam Ravnborg
2005-08-11 22:13 ` Alan Chandler
2005-08-11 22:18 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-08-12 8:34 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-08-12 8:41 ` David Lang
2005-08-12 10:35 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-08-13 23:57 ` Ryan Anderson
2005-08-14 0:11 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-08-15 5:08 ` Ryan Anderson
2005-08-14 0:48 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-08-14 0:49 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-08-11 21:51 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-11 21:53 ` Linus Torvalds
2005-08-11 22:20 ` Sebastian Kuzminsky
2005-08-11 23:09 ` Christian Meder
2005-08-11 23:12 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-08-12 8:08 ` [PATCH] Debian packaging for 0.99.4 [u] Andreas Jellinghaus [c]
2005-08-11 19:11 ` [PATCH] Debian packaging for 0.99.4 Junio C Hamano
2005-08-11 21:45 ` Gene Heskett
2005-08-11 22:21 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <7vd5olqtvp.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
[not found] ` <20050810235436.GW28270@kiste.smurf.noris.de>
2005-08-12 20:21 ` Junio C Hamano
2005-08-12 22:54 ` Martin Langhoff
2005-08-13 0:41 ` Matthias Urlichs
2005-08-13 0:38 ` [PATCH] more Debian packaging fixes Matthias Urlichs
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