On Mon, Nov 9, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Nov 2015 11:18:32 +1100 > "Michael ." <keltoi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >There is no namespace issue, we are building on the existing >> >live-config >> and >> >live-boot packages that are maintained and bringing these into >> >Debian as native projects. If necessary, these will be forks, but >> >I'm hoping that won't have to happen and that we can integrate these >> >packages into Debian and continue development in a collaborative >> >manner. >> >> Actually there is and I think any person who works in a legal capacity >> would verify that. > > No, in the Debian project, no team has exclusive rights over package > namespaces - filename conflicts are different. Namespacing should be > consistent with the purpose of the package to avoid confusion. > live-build-ng is the next generation of build tool for live images. The > name is appropriate.
Obviously, several users don't agree with you. There's a conflict of interest in the naming of your new package, which confuse established users base of live-build. live-build-ng isn't a drop in replacement of live-build, or live-build deprecated in any way (except its usage by Debian CD team).
