+1 for ".dvu"


On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 1:39 PM, Godefridus Daalmans <frits@???>
wrote:
>
> In-Reply-To: <20141215160426.GD29016@???>
> References: <20141215160426.GD29016@???>
>
> Our plan is to release Jessie, but without systemd.
>>
>> To make it clear that's what we are doing, what could be simpler
>> than to use the name Jessie for our version of Jessie.
>>
>> Instead of me talking about Debian Jessie, I'd just talk about Devuan
>> Jessie.
>>
>> The most obvious difference will be that apt-sources mentions devuan
>> repositories where it now mentions debian repositories.
>>
>> If we go our own way after that, we need not retain the same release
>> names.
>>
>> -- hendrik
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> 95% of the packages are going to be the same, anyway.
>
> I think it would be nice for everyone involved (Debian AND Devuan users and
> developers) if the *package* names were distinguishable. So that if
> there's a problem,
> you can see whether it's the Debian or Devuan version that's installed.
>
> Something similar was done by Marillat with his Debian Multimedia, IIRC:
> it made a lot of difference in functionality, if you had
> ffmpeg version 6:0.8.16-1 installed (patent-crippled USA-friendly Debian
> version) or
> the version
> ffmpeg version 8:1.0.6-dmo2 (deb-multimedia.org, why couldn't Debian have
> kept "non-US")
>
> where I suspect that C.M. used the letters "dmo2" to distinguish it from
> the
> default, Debian version.
>
> Pretty soon it's going to make some difference whether you have
> cups 1.2.3-4+devuan installed, or the vanilla cups 1.2.3-4
>
> So: an important question:
>
> What should be the suffix that tells the user that the Devuan version of a
> package
> is installed?
>
> ("devuan" sounds about right)
>
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