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

[Josselin Mouette]

Le mardi 05 juin 2012 à 16:24 +0200, Ricardo Mones a écrit : 
>   I don't know about that git precedent. 

There was an old package named git. Then a new one, more popular,
originally named git-core.
Now git is what people expect git to be on a Linux system. And epiphany
is not.

> 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.

No, the confusion comes from two upstream packages having the same name.

> > 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 

Documentation pointing to a binary named epiphany, not epiphany-browser.
Desktop files, documentation files, links, icons all failing to work
randomly upon new upstream releases because they expect “epiphany” as
name, not “epiphany-browser”.
Other GNOME modules failing to find epiphany because it doesn’t have the
right name.
Etc. 

> 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.

Maybe you could explain your reasons to piss off users by not renaming
your pet package with 0.55% popcon.

> 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.

This is exactly what we do, yet an epiphany binary is necessary for
compatibility.

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

Yes, it’s a shorter but quite equivalent explanation.

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