Re: Should Epiphany browser be renamed because of conflict w/ game name?

[Evandro Fernandes Giovanini <efgiovanini gmail com>]

Em Sex, 2006-10-20 �17:09 -0400, Adam Hooper escreveu:
> On Fri, 2006-20-10 at 20:10 +0000, Jason Spiro wrote:
> > Jason Spiro <jasonspiro4+news <at> gmail.com> writes:
> 
> > > I filed a bug at http://bugs.debian.org/393521 - no response yet; we
> > > will see what happens.
> > 
> > One of the Debian maintainers replied. He thinks it would be confusing for those 
> > who have the game installed to rename the package to epiphany-game. He also is a 
> > big fan of the game and believes that having it named epiphany is a good way of 
> > making more people discover the game. Although that is true, I still hope Debian 
> > will rename Epiphany.
> > 
> > If you use Debian and want to join the bug discussion, send comments to 393521@
> > bugs.debian.org and they will be added to the thread.
> 
> Yet the only numbers he can find (which you mentioned in your bug
> report) prove exactly the opposite of what he argues. He has no basis
> for argument :).
> 
> I suggest you just file the same bug against Ubuntu. Ubuntu developers
> are far more likely to care about Epiphany-the-browser (they came
> extremely close to making it their default), and I find stuff gets done
> in Ubuntu way faster than in Debian :).
> 

It's less important on Ubuntu, because:

1) users are more likely to use Synaptic or gnome-app-install, which are
installed by default. On both these programs you can't really install a
package without reading its description;

2) epiphany (the game) is in the universe repository, which is not
enabled by default. The chances of installing the game instead of the
browser are zero on a default install.

It should also be mentioned that Debian installs Epiphany by default if
you select the "desktop" task.

Cheers,
Evandro