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

[Aditya Vaidya]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 2:30 AM, Bas Wijnen <wijnen at debian.org> wrote:

> On 17-02-13 23:41, Aditya Vaidya wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Did you (or will you) address the "phone-home"-concerns I expressed
> earlier?
>

I've removed the update checker, but the MOTD retriever is still
implemented, as I see no harm in that. However, if you (or someone else)
feel that there's a problem with this, I'll remove it.


>
> > 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.
>
> I don't think there is a policy, other than "packages should have the
> same name they have upstream" (I'm not sure if that's written anywhere,
> but it seems logical). For example, if the upstream tarball is called
> "thepowdertoy-0.1.tar.gz" or something, then "thepowdertoy" is a
> sensible name. You can also use the main executable's name as reference
> which normally has the same name as the tarball.
>

Well, the executable is named "powder", but the git repo upstream it called
"The-Powder-Toy". I'll ask upstream if they have any preference over the
two, and then I'll get back to you guys.

Sincerely,
kroq-gar78
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