Bug#676163: confusing naming of the packages epiphany and epiphany-browser

[Ricardo Mones]

  Hi,

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 02:24:45PM +0200, Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le mardi 05 juin 2012 à 09:01 +0200, Michael Stummvoll a écrit : 
> > Package: epiphany,epiphany-browser
> > Severity: normal
> > 
> > Dear Maintainers,
> > 
> > the package "epiphany" provides the binary "epiphany-game"
> > tha binary "epiphany" is provided by the package "epiphany-browser"
> > 
> > thats very confusing. May the Maintainers of the packages should find a
> > way to clearify this.
> 
> As you might have noticed, the maintainer for the epiphany-game package
> has a rather stubborn opinion, despite the git precedent which is very
> similar in Debian.

  I don't know about that git precedent. Anyway my opinion is simple, and all
the confussion comes by the changes made in epiphany-browser package to 
hijack the epiphany name, despite being already used by an existing package.

> This attitude is causing all sorts of bugs in epiphany since we have to
> rename it to “epiphany-browser” in many places. 

  Since I've done several of those reassignations I don't think that's causing
much trouble to you. How much are "all sort of bugs"? Because you make it look
like you were all day long renaming bugs from epiphany... :-P 
 
> Unfortunately, you need to keep your forces for large fights, and I
> don’t think this one is worth it. If you feel like spending energy for
> it, I suggest you appeal his decision to the technical committee.

  Sure, then maybe you have a reason to revert epiphany-bin to epiphany
rename [0] which later caused http://bugs.debian.org/216489, and basically
where all the confussion comes from.

  If you had choose renaming to epiphany-browser, all of this would be fine:
epiphany package would be providing epiphany binary and epiphany-browser
would be providing epiphany-browser.

  But I guess it's more simple to say I'm the stubborn guy, thanks Josselin
by your great explanation of the situation.

  regards,

[0] http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/main/e/epiphany-browser/current/changelog#version1.4.0-1
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  Ricardo Mones 
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