Debian/Ubuntu: Why was the service renamed from bind9 to named?

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Wed Apr 15 07:17:03 UTC 2020



Am 15.04.20 um 09:09 schrieb Klaus Darilion:
>>> It would be great if you undo this change before release of 18.04
>>
>> you confuse the upstream project with your distribution
>>
>> bind9 was completly wrong in the debian world as well as apache2 for
>> httpd, on sane distributions it's "httpt" and "named" all the years
>> beause it's nonsense to throw vesions in service names
> 
> I do not complain about the version number, but of the name.
> 
> And in my opinion it is not sane to call a service/package httpd if the name of the software is Apache

seriously?

https://www.apache.org/

https://downloads.apache.org/httpd/
https://downloads.apache.org/tomcat/
https://downloads.apache.org/trafficserver/

and what do you do after httpd-3.0 is out?

you won't have httpd2 and httpd3 on the same system from your distribution




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