On Wed, 2016-06-01 at 21:56 -0400, Jeremy Bicha wrote: > On Wed, Jun 1, 2016 at 7:47 AM, Adrien Plazas <kekun.plazas@laposte.n > et> wrote: > > AFAIK the application is already distributed in Arch since 3.18 and > > as a > > Flatpak with the gnome-games name. > > No, it's not in Arch yet really. [1] > > It's funny you bring up Flatpak though, because I think that proves > you *can* change a project name even after it's been packaged in > distros. > > > This seems like a distribution problem and one which is specific to > > Debian > > and its derivatives, so after more reflection changing the > > project's name is > > probably not the solution, especially as nothing prevents Debian to > > use a > > different package name like the one suggested by Michael. > > Of course, Ubuntu and Linux Mint are major Debian derivatives. But > it's not only Debian derivatives as openSUSE did the same thing! [2] > > Not to put words in Michael's mouth, but my reading was that he was > suggesting a name for your valued project, not for the distro > metapackage. > > Even if Debian and openSUSE changed the name of the metapackage > today, that name would not be available for reuse in those projects > for *years*. In Debian's case, the old name must be kept with a > temporary dependency on the new name for at least one stable release. > > While you mentioned confusion to users as a concern, think about the > confusion when several distros have to maintain a different source > package name, meaning the package is named differently in their > repositories and bug trackers than the primary project. I believe > it's > early enough that most of the pain is easily avoidable, even though > it's less convenient now than it would have been a few months ago.
I don't think it should have to change names. You can name the "new" gnome-games package in your distribution "gnome-games-app". There's already prior art in that case with epiphany, the web browser vs. the game. _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list desktop-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
