On 2020-04-22 11:13 -0400, Aaron Boxer wrote: > Hello!, > > I have created a new package for a library (grok) with the same name as an > existing debian package, so I have named my package grok-jpeg2000, because it > is an image coder for the JPEG 2000 standard. Will this mismatch between my > library name and my package name be a problem getting the package accepted ? No. You can call the package whatever is reasonable, and of course avoiding name clashes is necessary. And the source package name can be nearly anything. However you can't (easily) just rename the library itself, because things that depend on it will look it up by name and fail to find it. This is fine - that package can be grok-jpeg200 (I see arch linux has used the same name), and the library libgrok-jpeg200 or libgrokn-jpeg2000, but the _binaries_ it installs are /usr/lib/<triplet>/libgrok* That means that even with the binary package name clash avoided it will not be co-installable with the other libgrok, because both provide /usr/lib/<triplet>/libgrok. That may or may not be a problem in practice (would anyone ever want both?) In this case you should mark both packages as conflicting. Not idea, but hard to fix. You could fix this by using a different library name and fixing up the name in all packages that depend on it, but that would still be a problem for compiling external projects that depend on this libray. They may have wildly differing sonames and rates of change that are likely to avoid filename clashes that way (i.e there would be /usr/lib/<triplet>/libgrok.so.1 in libgrok1 and /usr/lib/<triplet>/libgrok.so.23) in libgrok23, and not much danger of the first putting out 22 more versions without the 2nd advancing, although there is always some risk of that going wrong one day. The best thing to do depends on the popularity and satbility of these projects and how many other packages/external projects use them. Contacting the grok maintainer to discuss what would be best is in order IMHO Wookey -- Principal hats: Linaro, Debian, Wookware, ARM http://wookware.org/
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