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Subject: Bug#673: xcompR6 and xdevelR6 packages are poorly named
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Package: xcompR6, xdevelR6
Version: 3.1.1-1

The names of these packages don't seem to agree with their
descriptions:

xcompR6 - This package has all the stuff needed to compile programs for 
X1R6.
xdevelR6 - Static X11R6 libraries.

It seems to me that the first description should apply to a package
called `xdevelR6' and the second should apply to something called
`xstaticlibsR6' perhaps.

Changing package names is usually a bad idea, but this is a
particularly egregious case and warrants the upset, I think.

Ian.

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From: iwj10@thor.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
To: iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk (Ian Jackson)
Subject: Bug#673: Acknowledgement (was: xcompR6 and xdevelR6 packages 
are poorly named)
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