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

["Jason Spiro" <jasonspiro4 gmail com>]

2006/10/20, Adam Hooper <adamh densi com>:
> 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 :).

I feel divergence between the Ubuntu and Debian package names would
cause too much confusion though.

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