[TYPO3-core] TYPO3 package naming

[Dmitry Dulepov]

Hi!

netz-haut - stephan seitz wrote:
> I'd really like to know, which genius came up with the idea of renaming of dummy-$VERSION packages (and contained base-directory) to blankpackage-$VERSION
>
> Maybe there *could* be a reason for this in new versions like 4.6.x, but for existing versions this is needless and useless. Moreover, everyone who does some installation automation will have to change a very simple rule to some weird database driven model, just to get the correct spelling of packages dependend on the respective revision.
>
> Sorry, but I consider this the most useless and annoying change I've seen the last decade.

I would prefer if it stayed "dummy" as it always was. The change because of 
the change is never good.

Does anybody know the reason why this was changed?

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Dmitry "itoldyou" Dulepov
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