Oops, looks like we got off of the bug there. Sincerely, kroq-gar78
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aditya Vaidya <kroq.ga...@gmail.com> Date: Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 10:37 AM Subject: Re: Bug#673087: RFS: the-powder-toy/78.1-1 [ITP] -- Physics sandbox game To: Bas Wijnen <wij...@debian.org> Cc: pkg-games-de...@lists.alioth.debian.org On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Bas Wijnen <wij...@debian.org> wrote: > On 17-02-13 23:41, Aditya Vaidya wrote: > > It's been a while, and I've been working on the package a little. I > > finally have most of the package working well, and I'll see if I can get > > it on Mentors sometime, as I have a long week ahead of me. > > Did you (or will you) address the "phone-home"-concerns I expressed > earlier? > I've removed the update checker, but the MOTD retriever is still implemented, as I see no harm in that. However, if you (or someone else) feel that there's a problem with this, I'll remove it. > > > Anyway, the main reason I'm writing this is to ask whether the package > > should be called "the-powder-toy" or simply "powder-toy" (or > > "powdertoy"?). I'm wondering this because I dropped by the Arch User > > Repository and saw that the package was indeed called "powder-toy", > > omitting the "the" (yes, I know Debian isn't dependent on what AUR > > people do, but it got me thinking). The only reason I've had "the" in > > the package name is because I took an old packaging of the game from a > > Launchpad PPA [1] and simply went from there, not giving much thought to > > the article at the beginning of the name. and I'm not sure what's > > Debian's policy about articles at the beginning of package names. > > I don't think there is a policy, other than "packages should have the > same name they have upstream" (I'm not sure if that's written anywhere, > but it seems logical). For example, if the upstream tarball is called > "thepowdertoy-0.1.tar.gz" or something, then "thepowdertoy" is a > sensible name. You can also use the main executable's name as reference > which normally has the same name as the tarball. > Well, the executable is named "powder", but the git repo upstream it called "The-Powder-Toy". I'll ask upstream if they have any preference over the two, and then I'll get back to you guys. Sincerely, kroq-gar78
