[Mageia-dev] What to do for software having MDV/Mandriva in name

Mon Jan 17 10:44:06 CET 2011

On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 09:49:24AM +0100, Romain d'Alverny wrote:
+> On Mon, Jan 17, 2011 at 02:07, Olivier Thauvin
+> <nanardon at nanardon.zarb.org> wrote:
+> > I am supposed to be the maintainers of this software, required by base
+> > of the system:
+> >
+> > perl-MDV-Distribconf-4.02-1mdv2010.1.src.rpm
+> > perl-MDV-Packdrakeng-1.13-5mdv2010.1.src.rpm
+> >
+> > Should we remove the 'MDV' part ?
+> 
+> Why should we?
+> 
+> As I understand it, this is the name of a specific package of Perl
+> stuff; at most, the "MDV" part is only a name tag (it's not a
+> registered trademark, barely a brand either) and it shows some
+> inheritance from MandrakeSoft/Mandriva days, because that's how the
+> software package was named at the start.
+
+We could also find a recursive acronym :
+
+MDV  -> MDV Distribution Versionning ?
+
+> As Hoyt points out, it would be more relevant to change the tag
+> if/when/once this code base grows independantly from the original one.
+
+Well, we can also ( and I think we should ) aim for keeping compatibility,
+and in fact, try to avoid forking too much. We can and should collaborate.
+
+Now, if some software are dropped ( or about to be ) by upstream, yes, forking
+would be a alternative.
+-- 
+Michael Scherer
+