Hi Scott,

On Sun, Jan 15, 2017 at 04:34:40PM +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >I fully agree with your generic name consideration.  The software is
> >well known in this work field anyway so I'm hesitating a bit to rename
> >it.  Would you consider this a strong issue that needs to be discussed
> >with upstream or is it in a "not nice but acceptable" status?
> 
> I think it should be discussed with upstream, but we have broader namespace 
> considerations that they may not understand or care about.

Definitely.
 
> As long as a package search for freebayes returns this in the result set, I 
> don't think it's critical to have the package name match exactly the upstream 
> name.

Do you care only about the *package* name or do you care as well about
the name binary /usr/bin/freebayes?
 
> Not wearing my FTP team hat for this, consider it as a comment from another 
> DD.

Both is welcome.

Kind regards

     Andreas.

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