[MPlayer-dev-eng] mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users.

[compn]

On Fri, 19 Aug 2011 19:51:15 +0200, Kurt Roeckx wrote:
>On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:56:41PM -0400, compn wrote:
>> mplayer2 is a very poor fork name used to confuse users.
>
>So you think Debian should rename the package to confuse people
>even more?

no, i think 'iceweasel' didnt confuse anyone...

>Or is there some other reason you mailed this to the Debian list?

i hoped debian had some rule about it but i guess not.

>I suggest you take it up with the people creating the fork.

it took him months to stop using 'mplayer' as his project name.

thanks for the insight.

-compn