Comment 3 for bug 558576

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Ronan Jouchet (ronj) wrote :

Great to see your responsiveness, Tomasz. If I come back on the three issues I mentioned,

1. The best would probably be that both projects choose a name. Anyway, "Alarm clock" is more an application category than an application name. Like "web browser" has Epiphany, Firefox, Chrome, the "Alarm clock" category would have Camilla and XYZ. Plus, if you respect the GNOME menu naming scheme (AppName AppCategory, like Firefox Web browser) it will still be clear what your application does: "Camilla Alarm clock". Good to see you're ready for this, let's see what Johannes says.
2. For ubuntu-bug to work correctly, (correct me if I'm wrong) the LP project must match the package name. At the moment, alarm-clock is your project name but Johannes package name.
   - First, if both of you decide to change names, with the help of transitional packages, the problem will be solved naturally. Both packages could be transformed to stubs depending on the new packages (camilla and xyz) for transitioning
   - If Johannes doesn't want to change his app name and you are the only one to accept the change, that would be a complicated situation where, even giving the keys of the alarm-clock package to Johannes,
     a. users of alarm-clock-applet will start receiving alarm-clock
     b. users of alarm-clock certainly should receive camilla and should uninstall alarm-clock
    I don't know deb packaging enough to know if this is feasible. Do you think so?
3. This adds to the fact that Johannes app should get a new package name along with the new name

I hope I'm starting a discussion between both you and that we'll see solutions emerge. Hopefully this post was more proactive than my first post who was a bit trollish, I admit. Thanks for your time.