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

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Sat, Jan 7, 2012 at 6:39 PM, Guillem Jover <guillem at debian.org> wrote:
> 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.

Would 'libav-bin' or maybe 'libav-tools' be better?

I'm not really convinced by 'avtools' and 'avutils', as both seem
pretty generic to me. 'libav' was chosen to follow the name change of
the project 'ffmpeg'->'libav'.

-- 
regards,
    Reinhard