Thanks for the link, I looked at that and the other june archives to get up to speed on the discussion. There seems to be some ambiguity on the part of the upstream project, md5deep is definitely the historical name, because hashdeep was a seperate but related tool by the same author, and md5deep was the project originally packaged for Arch, before I adopted it. On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:38 AM, Steven Honeyman <stevenhoneyman@gmail.com> wrote:
OK, I'm not a TU (yet?)... but as the person that contacted you probably did so because of a post to this ML of mine from 5 days ago, I think I should link this [1] here. A few people replied, and md5deep was "decided" as the real name for the package. I have "strong feelings" that it should remain as-is, given that anybody searching for it will look for the name "md5deep" because that's what it is named everywhere else (i.e. all linux distros).
Steven.
[1] https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/aur-general/2014-May/028617.html
On 6 June 2014 15:29, David Kaylor <dpkaylor@gmail.com> wrote:
A user is requesting that the md5deep package name be changed to hashdeep, which I agree seems consistent with the project maintainer's wishes, since all development of md5deep has been moved to github under the hashdeep name. Do any Trusted Users have strong feelings about this or advice for me? And if I go ahead with the name change, what is the best procedure? I'm assuming I would need to do a replaces=(md5deep) and/or a provides=(md5deep) and then request that comments, etc. be moved over.