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

Mon Jan 17 15:11:30 CET 2011

On Monday, January 17, 2011 02:44:06 am Michael scherer wrote:
+> 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.
+
+I agree. Both Disti's do not have enough marketing resources and working 
+together could help that others may do a Mandriva/Mageia package such as 
+Skype, etc.
+All we find is Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse and of course Debian
+
+> 
+> Now, if some software are dropped ( or about to be ) by upstream, yes,
+> forking would be a alternative.
+
+-- 
+Thomas
+