Matt Zimmerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (15/11/2007):
> This isn't a policy violation if the package was misnamed this way in
> the first place, but it is awfully confusing and will be even more so
> if the soname version is ever incremented to 1. I'm surprised this
> made it into the archive in its current form.

I'm neither ftpmaster, or the sponsor.

> Are you maintaining this package now? The maintainer is listed as
> Mathias Palm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the control file.

No, I'm not. I'm only a debian-bugs-rc@ reader.

> As you rightly point out, policy doesn't enforce a precise naming
> scheme, and you could probably name the package frobnicator3.14159 if
> you wanted, but it's common (and sensible) practice to name it after
> the library inside.

I know about best practices, but that doesn't make this bug RC, thus the
severity downgrade. The goal is to let people walking through RC bugs
concentrate on RC issues.

-- 
Cyril Brulebois

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