Bug#714820: ITP: ntopng -- High-Speed Web-based Traffic Analysis and Flow Collection Tool

[Ludovico Cavedon <cavedon@debian.org>]

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 5:00 AM, The Wanderer <wanderer@fastmail.fm> wrote:
> Might I suggest a different package name, e.g. 'ntop-ng'?
>
> At a glance, 'ntopng' reads to me as "N-to-PNG", along the lines of
> existing file-format converter programs. While it's not absolutely
> necessary to avoid that, if there's no real downside to doing so, it
> might be a good idea.

Good point about the double interpretation, I did not think about it.
However, given that there is no real conflict, I would like to keep
the name as close as possible to upstream.

> I'm also not sure how good "-ng"-style names are in the first place,
> unless you are positive that there will never be a future "next"
> generation after this one; a name like "ntop2" would be more
> forward-development-compatible in that light. But that's just my
> principles speaking, not a source of present confusion.

This is a good point too, but I am sure upstream put the appropriate
thought in it.
I would not like to change the upstream name. What if I call it now
ntop2 and in a couple of years upstream releases ntop2? :)

Thanks,
Ludovico