Re: ITP: arb -- C library for arbitrary-precision floating-point ball arithmetic

[Tobias Hansen <thansen@debian.org>]

Am 03.09.2015 um 20:53 schrieb Julien Puydt:
> Hi,
> 
> Le 03/09/2015 19:58, Tobias Hansen a écrit :
>> Julien discussed this in his ITP. Since the binary package names libarb
>> and libarb-dev are already taken by the existing package, I'm afraid we
>> will have to use a different library name for the new package.
> 
> 
> I see there is no name collision in the packages -- so the collision is
> only on package names.
> 
> Can I name my packages something like src:ballarith, libballarith,
> libballarith-dev and libballarith-doc ?
> 
> Snark on #debian-science
> 

Mhh, then people looking for it won't find it. It would probably be good
to have arb in the name. What about naming them src:arblib, libarblib
and libarblib-dev?

Best,
Tobias