[Fwd: Naming problem for the "Falcon Programming Language" in Ubuntu.]

[Giancarlo Niccolai]

Daniel Holbach wrote:
> In cases where no agreement is possible, this should have gone before
> the Archive Administrators. This team acts like the Debian FTP Masters
> in cases of namespace collisions. Before uploading all possible clashes
> should be 100% dealt with.
>
> The race for inclusion in both Debian and Ubuntu is totally unnecessary.
>
> Have a nice day,
>  Daniel
>
>   
I have already said I will mirror Ubuntu policy, if possible, ONCE an 
OPEN discussion will make a common decision to emerge.

As it doesn't seem that the sentence "Before uploading all possible 
clashes should be 100% dealt with" is valid as an universal rule, 
considering this case, I cannot consider unbiased the other statement: 
"The race for inclusion in both Debian and Ubuntu is totally unnecessary".

IMHO, and in my point of view, there is no race at all. I am just 
distributing the package with other distros as well (I am planning to 
have packages for all the major distros by 0.8.8 version, that is, in 
about a month), and debian packages was ready long before I submitted 
any package to Ubuntu. I devoted a great deal of effort and time to 
Ubuntu, but I cannot dedicate everything to it. When a solution will be 
sorted out, if Falcon (language) package will still be able to be 
included in Ubuntu, then, in that case, it will be my first commitment 
to avoid any distress to the two communities by uniforming the packages. 
But as Falcon is currently *not* cleared for inclusion in Ubuntu, (nor 
in Debian), how can someone talk of a "race" for inclusion? -- you mean 
it is not right to submit packages which complain other distro policies, 
rules and name clashes because there is a name clash in one of them? -- 
it seems somehow a biased opinion.

Have a nice day too,
Giancarlo Niccolai.