Hi Andreas, On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 11:22:10AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that we have a name space polution: > > $ apt-cache search libblitz > libblitz-dev - KDE/Qt image filter library - development files > libblitz0 - C++ template class library for scientific computing > libblitz4 - KDE/Qt image filter library > libblitz0-dev - C++ template class library for scientific computing > libblitz-doc - C++ template class library for scientific computing > libblitz0ldbl - C++ template class library for scientific computing > > which means that two completely different library and both of them > install /usr/lib/libblitz.so (and other files). > > I feel responsible for libblitz++ (group maintained with Konstantinos > Margaritis) and I personally initiated changing the name from > libblitz++ to libblitz in the package because some tools did not > really liked the '++' but the actual files are named without the '++' > anyway and thus re-renaming the package to libblitz++ would not help > anyway. So what would be the best way to go in this case? > > I have no idea about the importance and role of libblitz inside > the KDE project and I'm definitely think that blitz is a generic > name that is not really well choosen in both cases. The KDE > libblitz4 is at version number 0.0.3 so probably quite young > while libblitz++ is even though it did not reached version 1.0 > a quite old project. > > Any reasonable advise? >
Do not worry about this, pusling noticed this problem while packaging blitz (the KDE one :) ), and asked upstream to rename it. It is going to be renamed to qimageblitz. [0] Ana [0] http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=118794317314610&w=2 and http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=118812754821665&w=2 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]