On 19/12/07 08:21, Nicholas D Steeves wrote: > Dear Team, > > I've been struggling to figure out how to name the following package. > It's a dependency of SyncthingTray, which--despite my slow progress--I'm > very dedicated to packaging, because it's the best freedom-respecting > alternative I've found to Dropbox and Google Drive that doesn't require > an OwnCloud server. > > https://github.com/Martchus/cpp-utilities > > IIRC it produces symbols named c++utilities, which is why it feels like > a namespace grab. It seems to me that it should be prefixed under the > "martchus" namespace, eg: martchus-c++utilities, or > martchus-cpputilities. Do we need/want the martchus prefix in Debian, > or would you bless this namespace grab? > > Ideally this could be solved upstream...but worse case scenario we would > have to rename the library for Debian use, patch it to use the new > public symbol names (with the prefix), and also patch any software in > Debian to check for the new name--probably in addition to the old name, > to avoid the situation where software written for Debian doesn't work > anywhere else. If we need to make Debian-only modifications I'll need > pointers to documentation about how to do this properly, without > creating a nightmare maintenance burden. > > > Looking forward to your replies! > Thanks, > Nicholas > > P.S. @Lisandro, this is the dependency I mentioned I'd need advice about > in our other thread.
I don't like the name, but so far nothing has claimed that name before... I would just create the ITP bug and see if anyone complains...
