more naming cleanups: irc channel, .deb packages,

[Etienne Goyer]

Hi Martin, everybody,

If I understand correctly, we need to change the name of the bazaar
package, but not bzr.  I would be glad to take care of that.

However, I am just wondering about the purpose of the baz/bazaar package
in the first place.  It have not been updated since Breezy, released in
October 2005.  My understanding is that is officially deprecated and
replaced by bzr.  Should we consider removing baz/bazaar entirely from
the distro ?

This may not be possible if some package still have a hard dependency on
it.  Also, I am not familiar with the process of doing so.  It would
probably involve looking for and fixing any package that still Depends,
Suggests or Recommends baz.

On the other, there is no harm in keeping it around.  I'll let Martin
advise about what to do, and start looking into what is involved in the
process.

Cheers !

Etienne


Martin Pool wrote:
> On 10/03/07, James Westby <jw+debian at jameswestby.net> wrote:
>> On (10/03/07 10:27), Martin Pool wrote:
>> > On 10/03/07, John Arbash Meinel <john at arbash-meinel.com> wrote:
>> > >I don't know if we need to rename bzr => bazaar. Considering
>> "Bazaar is
>> > >the name of the project and bzr is the name of the program". It makes
>> > >sense to me to use "bzr" as the name of the program you are
>> installing.
>> >
>> > Me too.  Renaming baz will make it easier to find the right one.
> 
> Etienne, your name also occurs in the baz package so can you take care
> of that too - maybe talk about the transition with an ubuntu core dev?
> 
> While we're fixing it the baz description could be updated; it
> currently talks a lot about GNU Arch which would be confusing even
> without bzr.
> 
> Something like this might be better:
> 
>  Baz fork of GNU Arch
> 
>  Baz is a distributed revision control system.
> 
>  Baz is replaced by Bazaar (package bzr).  Existing repositories can be
>  converted using the bzr-bazimport command from bzrtools.
> 


-- 
Etienne Goyer
Senior Ubuntu System Support Analyst
Canonical, Ltd

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