Re: Bug#787739: ITP: plip -- fully automated protein-ligand interaction profiler

[Alex Mestiashvili <alex@biotec.tu-dresden.de>]

On 06/04/2015 11:35 PM, Simon Richter wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On 04.06.2015 17:21, Alexandre Mestiashvili wrote:
>
> > * Package name    : plip
>
> This might be confusing to old people. PLIP is a protocol for
> transporting IP packets over the parallel port.
>
>     Simon


Hi Simon,

I agree that the name is a bit ambiguous, but I see a couple
of reasons why it is still might be ok:

- aptitude search plip shows only hplip, which has nothing to do with
 parallel port as well.
- plipconfig is provided by net-tools package, and I think
 it is not likely that somebody will create a package for parallel
 port ip protocol software only.
- it is not a python library to call it python-plip.
- any 4 letter name is ambiguous and currently
 there are ~ 790 such packages.

And honestly, being old doesn't mean using old technologies :)

After the discussion with the upstream, I think I can rename it to

 pliprofiler

The problem is that I've already created the repository:

 http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-med/plip.git

Which should be renamed in this case.

What is the correct way to do it ?

Thank you,
Alex