On 2018-09-24 18:07:11 +0200 (+0200), W. Martin Borgert wrote: > Quoting Aurélien COUDERC <couc...@coucouf.fr>: > > I’m working on packaging Elisa, a modern and simple music player based > > on the KDE Frameworks stack. [0][1] > > > > I initially named the package elisa, but such a package already existed > > in the > > archive in the past. > > In a similar case, I just renamed the package. There used to be > dino, an "integrated MIDI piano roll editor and sequencer engine", > and there is dino, a "modern XMPP client". I renamed the latter to > "dino-im" (im = instant messaging). All problems solved. [...]
Same here. When I introduced a package of the command-line utility `weather` (in Etch) I named the source and binary packages weather-util because there was a non-free game with the package name "weather" in the archive three Debian releases earlier (removed after Potato). I could have made the case for it, but packages names are cheap and reusing a package name (no matter how old) is just a recipe for headaches. -- Jeremy Stanley
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