Bug#673087: RFS: the-powder-toy/78.1-1 [ITP] -- Physics sandbox game

[Aditya Vaidya]

Hello again,

It's been a while, and I've been working on the package a little. I finally
have most of the package working well, and I'll see if I can get it on
Mentors sometime, as I have a long week ahead of me.

Anyway, the main reason I'm writing this is to ask whether the package
should be called "the-powder-toy" or simply "powder-toy" (or "powdertoy"?).
I'm wondering this because I dropped by the Arch User Repository and saw
that the package was indeed called "powder-toy", omitting the "the" (yes, I
know Debian isn't dependent on what AUR people do, but it got me thinking).
The only reason I've had "the" in the package name is because I took an old
packaging of the game from a Launchpad PPA [1] and simply went from there,
not giving much thought to the article at the beginning of the name. and
I'm not sure what's Debian's policy about articles at the beginning of
package names.

Thanks in advance!

[1]: https://launchpad.net/~savask/+archive/the-powder-toy



Sincerely,
kroq-gar78


On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 5:19 PM, Vincent Cheng <vincentc1208 at gmail.com>wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Aditya Vaidya <kroq.gar78 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > How can I commit the package to the pkg-games VCS?
>
> Refer to the Debian wiki [1] for instructions; basically, all you have
> to do is setup an Alioth account and request to join the Games team
> there. You can pick either svn or git for your packaging, whichever
> you prefer.
>
> Regards,
> Vincent
>
> [1] http://wiki.debian.org/Games/VCS#Setting_up
>
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