Bug#582884: ITP: usb-creator -- Live USB creator
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote:
> Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org> wrote:
>>>>> * Package name : usb-creator
>>>> "usb-creator" is a bit misleading (or at least… not clear). Could
>>>> you rename it into something like "live-usb-creator"?
>>>
>>> This package has been shipped in Ubuntu for a few releases now.
>>
>> Honestly, I don't know how you (as a team) ended up with such a name.
>
> it was before me. But there is liveusb-creator package already
> developed and packaged in Fedora [1]
>
> [1] https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/
Speaking as a random bystander who just happened to notice this
Debian ITP and went "WTF?", I would like to point out that
"usb-creator" and "liveusb-creator" are two different strings, and
that even "liveusb-creator" may be less than self-explanatory for
people who don't happen to have been reading the boot-CD development
mailinglists for the past few years.
For us outsiders, "LiveUSB" is an unfamiliar piece of jargon. I
gather it's formed by analogy with "liveCD", but the difference is
that "live CDs" are literally a kind of CD (like "music CDs" and
"data CDs"), while "live USBs" aren't any kind of USB - they're a
kind of flash drive.
Taking that already confusing term and leaving off the "live"
eliminates the only clue that it has something to do with booting an
operating system, and leaves us wondering how you've managed to
package a Creator that can be plugged into a USB port.
So if you're going to insist on giving these packages newbie-hostile
names, please at least say you'll give them intelligible short
descriptions, not just ones that expand the name slightly.
I would suggest instead of having synopses like this:
Package: usb-creator-common
...
Description: Live USB creator (common files)
they should be more along the lines of:
Package: usb-creator-common
...
Description: tool for putting OS images on flash drives - common files
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