On 07/03/2013 02:45 AM, Ludovico Cavedon wrote:

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Ludovico Cavedon <cave...@debian.org>

* Package name    : ntopng
  Version         : 1.0
  Upstream Author : Luca Deri <d...@ntop.org>
* URL             : http://www.ntop.org/products/ntop/
* License         : GPL-3
  Programming Lang: C++
  Description     : High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection 
Tool

ntopng is the next generation version of the original ntop, a network
traffic probe that shows the network usage, similar to what the popular
top Unix command does. ntop is based on libpcap and it has been written
in a portable way in order to virtually run on every Unix platform,
MacOSX and on Win32 as well.

Might I suggest a different package name, e.g. 'ntop-ng'?

At a glance, 'ntopng' reads to me as "N-to-PNG", along the lines of
existing file-format converter programs. While it's not absolutely
necessary to avoid that, if there's no real downside to doing so, it
might be a good idea.

I'm also not sure how good "-ng"-style names are in the first place,
unless you are positive that there will never be a future "next"
generation after this one; a name like "ntop2" would be more
forward-development-compatible in that light. But that's just my
principles speaking, not a source of present confusion.

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