Bug#654984: libav: Please use a less confusing package name

Guillem Jover guillem at debian.org
Sat Jan 7 17:39:21 UTC 2012


Package: libav
Version: 4:0.8~beta1-2
Severity: wishlist

Hi!

There's now a libav binary package in experimental, which ffmpeg
transitions to (due to the upstream change). The thing is that I
initially got pretty confused by the name, and on a quick glance
thought it was a metapackage for the shared libraries(!).

In any case given our current conventions naming a tools/utils package
libfoo seems pretty confusing in general, and I'd not expect to find
those there. Could you consider renaming the package to something like
avtools, avutils, or similar maybe? Although the second might not be a
good choice as it could be confused to be related exclusively to
libavutil.

thanks,
guillem





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