On 12/7/23 08:14, Andrea Pappacoda wrote:
Hi Thomas, maybe swift-tools is a bit too generic as the name of this package.
Well, it is a generic package name, because it contains generic tools for swift, so that's on purpose. And it goes together with "ceph-tools" which we also author.
So no, I do not intend to change the package name.
The first thing I though when reading it, was a set of tools to help > development with the Swift programming language.
Swift, the OpenStack object storage, was invented way before Apple decided to steal this name. Not my fault...
Maybe it'd be better to add "openstack" or "cluster" to the package name?
Thanks, but no. Swift can be used without OpenStack, and other swift packages don't contain the word "openstack" or "cluster", so it makes no sense to do that. Also, the short description contains the word "cluster".
On top of this, there's no mention of the swift language anywhere in Debian, and the Swift stuff from Apple aren't free software so they will *never* be in Debian, so there's no confusion possible.
Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
