Re: [RFC] advice about an upstream library that seems like a namespace grab
On 19/12/07 08:21, Nicholas D Steeves wrote:
> 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.
I don't like the name, but so far nothing has claimed that name before... I
would just create the ITP bug and see if anyone complains...
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