On Fri, 28 Jul 2006, Zafer Aydogan wrote:

> Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 13:43:14 +0200
> From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer.aydogan@gmail.com>
> To: Pierrick Brossin <pierrick@bs-network.net>
> Cc: pkgsrc-users@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Ethereal removed from pkgsrc ?
>
> Ethereal has been renamed to Wireshark, after the Developer of
> Ethereal Gerald Combs changed his employer from Ethereal, Inc. in
> Kansas  to Cace Technologies in Davis, California. The former has
> registered the name as a Trademark in January 2004. (See also:
> http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200606/msg00093.html)
>
> Zafer.

Would there be any advantage, in these sorts of situations, in there being
a dummy pkgsrc stub (perhaps for one further release only of the
pkgsrc-stable branch), such that:

  cd pkgsrc/whatever/foo ; make

results in

  Application pkgsrc/whatever/foo is now dprecated in favour of
  pkgsrc/somethingelse/bar.  See URL for more details.

Or similar ?

> 2006/7/28, Pierrick Brossin <pierrick@bs-network.net>:
> > On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:31:30AM +0200, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
> > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2006/07/21/0044.html
> > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-changes/2006/07/22/0021.html
> > >
> > > http://www.wireshark.org/faq.html#q1.2
> >
> > Weird I haven't crossed that in my researches :)
> >
> > Thanks Lubomir
> >
> >
> > -Pierrick Brossin
> >
>


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