renaming of the nvidia-common packages

Andreas Beckmann debian at abeckmann.de
Fri Apr 15 19:12:59 UTC 2011


Hi,

I'm considering renaming the recently introduced 'nvidia-common' package
as follows:

rename the binary package 'nvidia-common' to 'nvidia-installer-cleanup'
as that's what the package actually does

rename the source package 'nvidia-common' to 'nvidia-debian-common'
There is a package in ubuntu called nvidia-common, too, and it does
something completely different.
Is a package name including 'debian' OK? Or do you have better suggestions?

I want to introduce a package that takes care of xorg configuration
(create a minimal xorg.conf), proposed name 'nvidia-debian-config' (not
to be confused with debian-xconfig), would that name be OK? Or are there
better suggestions?


Also the old nvidia-kernel-common source package (not the binary package
built from nvidia-common) should be removed from unstable, IIRC it was
Arch: all or Arch: any before, now it's restricted to i386, amd64


Andreas



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