On Sun, 2024-10-06 at 09:45 +0200, Simon Josefsson wrote:
[...]
> I agree in principle, but I wonder if going through the effort of
> introducing a new source package 'signify-mail' and removing the current
> 'signify' will give us anything beyond doing the QA package upload to
> rename the binary package.
> 
> The only advantage I can identify seems to be if the 'signify-openbsd'
> source package would then be able to be renamed to 'signify'.  But is
> that possible?  Are there any earlier examples of re-use of the same
> source package name, but for a different package?
[...]

There are 2 prominent examples:

- chromium (the original chromium is now chromium-bsu)
- git (the oriignal git is now gnuit)

Ben.

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Ben Hutchings
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