On Dec 12, 2014, at 02:10 PM, Ben Finney wrote: >Name collision is one such problem that can reasonably be foreseen if >the package name is too generic for its purpose. Perhaps. It's worth doing a search of existing FLOSS projects and see if there are existing projects that could reasonably collide. If not, I don't think it's necessary to future proof your source package name for whatever may come down the pike some day. Even if there are potential collisions, it's worth trying to make some determination as to whether those other packages have a reasonable expectation of entering Debian any time soon. Or put another way, what is "too generic" and who gets to decide? Cheers, -Barry
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