I wholeheartedly agree with Mr. Jackson. I was briefly confused as well. The
two applications have the same name, one is undoubtedly immensely more
popular than the other, and so I think it's a fair to have "epiphany-game"
and "epiphany-browser" for the respective packages.
Peter Chapman
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From: "Anders Jackson"
Sent: Thursday, September 24, 2009 5:16 AM
To: <393...@bugs.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Bug#393521: my confusion about package name
I was looking up bug reports for the epiphany browser, when I ended up
here. So, here is one more vote for a change of this situation.
I think that it's resonable to change the games package name to
"epiphany-game" and let the browser package still have the old name
"epiphany-browser". Then no package would have the name "epiphany", and
people blindly installing packages would get an error when they try to
do 'aptitude install ephiphany' or trying to report errors.
The good thing with this is that all users has to learn to use
'apt-cache' to check which package they really should install. :)
It isn't difficult to change a package name, it just takes time. As Jon
wrote, it's just a set of conflicts/replace/provides on the epiphany
package, and after two releases the name change is done.
Yours
Anders Jackson
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