[Pkg-mozext-maintainers] debian package naming conventions for extensions for mozilla-based tools

[Daniel Kahn Gillmor]

hey folks--

I'm starting work on getting firegpg back into debian, and was trying to
 sort out best-practices for package naming.

previously, firegpg was known as iceweasel-firegpg in debian.

this made it a bit clumsy for our downstream (e.g. derived distros like
ubuntu) which ship firefox and not iceweasel.

I'm inclined to just name the package firegpg and to mention both
firefox and iceweasel in the package description so that people
searching can find it, and so that our downstream folks can use it more
freely.

However, i notice that some packages (e.g. firebug and webdeveloper) use
the iceweasel- prefix, and others (e.g. noscript) uses a mozilla-
prefix.  and enigmail has no prefix at all.  Are we trying to converge
on a standard?  Is it irrelevant?

If there has already been discussion on this, i'd appreciate a pointer
to it.  If not, should we try to make this something predictable to help
people searching for browser extensions via apt?

	--dkg

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