Package: docker
Severity: wishlist

Dear Maintainer,

It appears that there's now a docker.io package which provides a command-line 
tool, which is usually called docker by its upstream maintainers.

It has been renamed to docker.io by the Debian packager in order to avoid the 
name clash. But this is quite annoying, since it's a tool which is invoked 
frequently by a docker administrator on the command linei (see #740856).

On the contrary, it seems to me that docker's docker command shouldn't be 
invoked on the command line so often by its users and could very well be 
renamed to something like docker-tray, for instance, given it is a GUI program 
which most would probably invoke through its menu file without caring much for 
its command name.

Would you consider such a renaming possible ?

The only issue I could see is for users having docker started through the 
sessions of the desktop environment which would potentially be annoyed by the 
renaming :-/

Thanks in advance for you help.

Best regards,

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US (charmap=ISO-8859-1)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages docker depends on:
ii  libc6         2.17-97
ii  libglib2.0-0  2.38.2-5
ii  libx11-6      2:1.6.2-1

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