Barry Warsaw <ba...@python.org> writes: > On Dec 12, 2014, at 08:36 AM, Ben Finney wrote: > > >Even for the source package name, “pathlib” is IMO too general. > >This is specifically a library for Python programmers only; its > >source package name should not grab a generic name like “pathlib”. > > Why not first-come-first-served?
In cases where a name collision was unexpected, the package is already in Debian, and renaming the packages is now too difficult, then “first come, first served” is a way to resolve the issue. That doesn't make it an invitation to grab available names. When considering a proposed package for Debian, one consideration should be what foreseeable problems can be avoided before the package enters Debian. Name collision is one such problem that can reasonably be foreseen if the package name is too generic for its purpose. -- \ “It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no | `\ ground whatever for supposing it true.” —Bertrand Russell, _The | _o__) Value of Scepticism_, 1928 | Ben Finney <b...@benfinney.id.au>
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