Gah, got off of the bug report again. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Aditya Vaidya <kroq.ga...@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 10:46 PM Subject: Re: Bug#673087: Fwd: Bug#673087: RFS: the-powder-toy/78.1-1 [ITP] -- Physics sandbox game To: Steven Hamilton <o...@scorch.net> Cc: Debian Mentors <debian-ment...@lists.debian.org>
Hello, I've decided to rename the package to "powdertoy" after asking upstream. I'll also push the git repo to the Games Team VCS after this is done. Sincerely, kroq-gar78 On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 5:38 PM, Steven Hamilton <o...@scorch.net> wrote: > > 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. >> > > powder is the executable name of the game "Powder" which I've recently > adopted. > > http://packages.debian.org/**wheezy/powder<http://packages.debian.org/wheezy/powder> > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > debian-mentors-REQUEST@lists.**debian.org<debian-mentors-requ...@lists.debian.org> > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/**e43a7eb7ffe6515d9cfcb2840aa4bb** > f...@fastmail.fm<http://lists.debian.org/e43a7eb7ffe6515d9cfcb2840aa4b...@fastmail.fm> > >
