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Upstream maintainer disagree with the package name



I recently upload a new package called libglade-perl. After some mail
exchange with the upstream maintainer (Dermot Musgrove
<dermot@glade.perl.connectfree.co.uk>), he say that libglade-perl is not
a library and he ask me to change the name of the package to glade-perl.

He is not wrong since in fact it is a perl generator that use perl class
embedded in perl module. The package also provide a perl executable that
may violate some policy.

What's you opinion about this.

Thanks for any help

Rémi Perrot

PS: here is part of the dpkg-dev -c result of libglade-perl
...
-rw-r--r-- root/root     74828 2001-02-10 17:07:33 ./usr/lib/perl5/Glade/PerlUIGtk.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root     27439 2001-02-10 17:07:33 ./usr/lib/perl5/Glade/PerlProject.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root     73210 2001-02-10 17:07:33 ./usr/lib/perl5/Glade/PerlUI.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root     50473 2001-02-10 17:07:33 ./usr/lib/perl5/Glade/PerlSource.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root     47475 2001-02-10 17:07:33 ./usr/lib/perl5/Glade/PerlGenerate.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root     22626 2001-02-10 17:07:34 ./usr/lib/perl5/Glade/PerlRun.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root     11532 2001-02-10 17:07:33 ./usr/lib/perl5/Glade/PerlXML.pm
-rw-r--r-- root/root     43005 2001-02-10 17:07:33 ./usr/lib/perl5/Glade/PerlUIExtra.pm
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2001-05-19 10:01:54 ./usr/share/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2001-05-19 10:02:11 ./usr/share/man/
drwxr-xr-x root/root         0 2001-05-19 10:02:26 ./usr/share/man/man3/
-rw-r--r-- root/root      7199 2001-05-19 10:01:35 ./usr/share/man/man3/Glade::PerlGenerate.3pm.gz
...
-rwxr-xr-x root/root      1520 2001-05-19 10:01:33 ./usr/bin/glade2perl
...

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