Package: libconfig
Severity: important
Tags: patch
ABZ's libconfig conflicts with HyperRealm's libconfig in its basename
(the actual sonames are different: libconfig0 for Abraham's, libconfig3 for
hyperrealms')
Querying the rdepends shows that no packages depend on libconfig:
$ apt-cache rdepends libconfig0
libconfig0
Reverse Depends:
libconfig0-dev
I request that libconfig be renamed as libabzconfig, to make room for
hyperrealms' libconfig.
RATIONALE: As Abraham himself recognized, "libabzconfig" is only intended to
be used by his own projects.
On the other hand, hyperrealms' is designed to be widely used by other
projects.
In the spirit of keeping the namespace as clean and uncluttered as possible,
I think that we should give the "libconfig" name to the most general package
among them.
Abraham's other library is already called "libabz0", so "libabzconfig" or
"libabz-config" would be a very suitable name for this.
Besides, as #438683 states, other DDs (namely, at least Julien Danjou) are
interested in having hyperrealms' libconfig in Debian.
Vincent Bernat also seems to agree on the proposed name change.
Despite ABZ's claim in the bug report (10th Aug 2007), the latest upload
happened
almost five years ago, and the package is essentially unmaintained since
then (e.g. Standards-Version 3.5.2)
Full disclosure: Hyperrealm's libconfig is a direct dependency of a
framework which I am going to package (as I stated in the aforementioned bug
report)
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