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Re: Upstream maintainer disagree with the package name



On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 11:44:46PM +0200, R?mi Perrot wrote:
> 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.

The package name fits our naming convention. I suggest to satisfy him,
you add this:

Provides: glade-perl

That way you keep our naming convention, and people can also do:

# apt-get install glade-perl

which should satisfy Dermot.

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