renaming of the nvidia-common packages

[Russ Allbery]

Andreas Beckmann <debian at abeckmann.de> writes:

> 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

That sounds like a good idea to me, particularly since it's used by more
than just the graphics driver packages now.

> 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?

How about nvidia-support?  It's not really specific to Debian; any derived
distribution could use it as well.

> 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?

nvidia-xconfig sounds like the right name to me, but of course is taken by
the NVIDIA utility, but that raises the question: is the NVIDIA utility at
all useful any more?  Last time I looked at it, it seemed kind of
marginal, and it wasn't really clear to me why anyone would use it.

Assuming it's useful, though, maybe nvidia-support as a generic package
name for anything that's independent of the various driver packages that
doesn't already have its own package, like the diversion handling?

nvidia-common is really the standard name for this sort of package.  The
Ubuntu nvidia-common package looks to be completely misnamed to me; it
should be called nvidia-autodetect or something like that.

> 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

Oh, thanks, I hadn't realized that it changed architectures.  I'll file a
bug to remove that, since I think that will interfere with the automatic
removal process.

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Russ Allbery (rra at debian.org)               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>