Dear Team, I've been struggling to figure out how to name the following package. It's a dependency of SyncthingTray, which--despite my slow progress--I'm very dedicated to packaging, because it's the best freedom-respecting alternative I've found to Dropbox and Google Drive that doesn't require an OwnCloud server. https://github.com/Martchus/cpp-utilities IIRC it produces symbols named c++utilities, which is why it feels like a namespace grab. It seems to me that it should be prefixed under the "martchus" namespace, eg: martchus-c++utilities, or martchus-cpputilities. Do we need/want the martchus prefix in Debian, or would you bless this namespace grab? Ideally this could be solved upstream...but worse case scenario we would have to rename the library for Debian use, patch it to use the new public symbol names (with the prefix), and also patch any software in Debian to check for the new name--probably in addition to the old name, to avoid the situation where software written for Debian doesn't work anywhere else. If we need to make Debian-only modifications I'll need pointers to documentation about how to do this properly, without creating a nightmare maintenance burden. Looking forward to your replies! Thanks, Nicholas P.S. @Lisandro, this is the dependency I mentioned I'd need advice about in our other thread.
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