Hi, picking up this old discussion
On Thu, 12 May 2016 12:04:53 -0500 Michael Catanzaro <mcatanz...@gnome.org> wrote: > On Thu, 2016-05-12 at 17:59 +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: > > Michael, given this concern by Paul, are you open to rename > > libgames-support? > > Would be great if you can comment on this issue with your upstream > > hat on. > > Hm, in retrospect, I absolutely agree with Paul, libgnome-games-support > or libgnome-games would indeed have been better names. I don't want to > change it at this point, though, because it's been packaged by several > other distros (Fedora, openSUSE, Arch) for roughly a year now, all of > which chose to name the package libgames-support. I'd prefer to keep > the upstream name in sync with these downstreams, and I think it's > unlikely that another project would want to use this name. Seeing you agree that libgnome-games-support is a more suitable name, we could use the 3.21 release cycle to do the switch. There are still not that many games using the name yet in 3.20, so downstream distros would not have to change much. They will have to undergo a library transition anyway if the library is renamed as part of [1]. Maybe we could piggy-back a complete rename. If you are concerned about pissing off downstreams, we could ask on the distributors mailing list first. I would offer to do that. Would you be fine if we tried that and given other distros have no isue with the rename we go for it in 3.21? > I think it's reasonable for Debian to use a different package name if > it prefers, but do consider the value in matching all the other > distros. Also, although I don't expect non-GNOME games to use the > library, it might be a good option for non-GNOME games that use GTK+ 3. I think renaming the package alone wouldn't really help if the point is to avoid file conflicts. We'd have to rename the library package as well, including pkg-config file etc. Which in turn would mean patching all affected packages. So if we are not going to rename it upstream, we won't rename it downstream either imho. Regards, Michael [1] https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766334 -- Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the universe are pointed away from Earth?
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