Hello Aleksey Samoilov, Thanks for your interest in packaging for Debian....
On Wed, Dec 28, 2016 at 05:59:36AM +0900, Aleksey Samoilov wrote: > Package: sponsorship-requests > Severity: wishlist > > Dear mentors, > > I am looking for a sponsor for my package "vc" [...] > Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command: > > dget -xhttps://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/v/vc/vc_1.3.0-1.dsc > > > Changes since the last upload: > > vc (1.3.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium > > * Initial release (Closes: #846491) I reviewed your package and it generally looks good. Minor comments: - not sure if enabling verbose dh is something I'd do by default. - dh compat 10 is the latest, not that it would buy you anything practically but staying with the current revision is usually a nice anyway. - you forgot to retitle #846491 to ITP (replacing RFP) and set yourself as owner. Over to the issue that didn't just make me sign and upload it: In Debian we have one shared namespace for all packages (and potential binaries, etc.). Shorter names often leads to collisions in the namespace. I don't see any other package currently named "vc" but still staying away from any 2letter name would in my opinion be preferrable. Atleast unless the name is obvious for most people and I think that's not the case here. For example myself (and likely many else) would being presented with only "vc" think it's about "virtual consoles". Certain things in the archive resolves the problem with the global debian namespace while still somewhat retaining their original name by adding a prefix, like eg. python-foo for what the python world generally knows as only 'foo'. Maybe you could consider renaming (both the source and binary) packages to simd-vc(-dev) or something similar? Please let me know what you think. (And a happy new year to you!) Regards, Andreas Henriksson
