"Gerald B. Cox" <gbcox(a)bzb.us> writes:
On Mon, Dec 5, 2016 at 3:30 AM, Dave Love
<d.love(a)liverpool.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> Why are most people going to use superlu-dist when that's not the proper
> name of the software? I'm not familiar with a SuperLU user community,
> but I think I can speak about DL_POLY as a DL veteran; I packaged it as
> "dl_poly" and wouldn't expect people to call it "dl-poly"
(outside
> Debian) or "dlpoly". The majority don't have underscores as part of
> their proper name, but the guidelines cover ones that do.
Who are most people?
Users of the software, for whom I'm packaging stuff. I get the
impression some people don't think they're very relevant, and I
increasingly come across things which make life hard supporting them.
Nobody is changing the name of the software.
As far as a user is concerned, you are.
That is entirely under the control of upstream.
Who I think deserve respect for their chosen names as far as
possible/reasonable, even if they're not (former) colleagues.
We're discussing how it is represented in
the Fedora repository.
That is the purview of the Fedora project, not upstream.
And clearly there isn't agreement in Fedora, even on what the guidelines
actually say, which was my point.