Comment 6 for bug 558576

I completely agree - the naming is a mess :-P

> 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.

This is not correct. My package name is 'alarm-clock-applet' and has always been the official ubuntu/debian package name. The only place where my package name has been 'alarm-clock' is in the older packages in my PPA, but they were changed to 'alarm-clock-applet' quite some time ago.

Bug reports from apport (ubuntu-bug) are always reported against the packages in the Ubuntu project and the maintainers of those packages have to determine whether to send them to the respective upstream projects. They are never reported directly against the upstream project, and shouldn't be! So as for ubuntu-bug I don't think there should be any problems with the package names, although I understand it can be confusing for the user.

> 3. Finally, alarm-clock-applet is no longer an applet

The distinction between an 'applet' and a program living in the notification area is fuzzy. For example, the Network Manager status icon binary is called 'nm-applet'. The volume control status icon app is called 'gnome-volume-control-applet'. I really don't think a package rename is necessary just because alarm-clock-applet *technically* isn't an applet.

However, I'm willing to change my launchpad project name to something like 'alarm-clock-applet' if it doesn't involve too much work switching over... I'm not sure it's even possible in Launchpad?