Bug#789923: game-data-packager: some packages' names are rather generic

Simon McVittie smcv at debian.org
Thu Jun 25 09:31:39 UTC 2015


Package: game-data-packager
Version: 42
Severity: normal

Many of the g-d-p data packages use a full and fairly distinctive name
of the game, or are named after a game that is suitably famous
(Doom, Quake) that namespace clashes are unlikely.

However, a few of them are rather generic and seem like they might
eventually collide with packages in Debian:

> atlantis-de-data
...
> atlantis-it-data

It isn't entirely obvious to me what game this is, and it isn't obvious
to me that it isn't going to clash with some other Debian package. Perhaps
we could call it fateofatlantis*-data or fate-of-atlantis*-data instead?
That way you at least get better search terms.

These are new in git, so renaming them is not a problem (but if we are
going to rename them, we should do so before releasing v42).

> glory1-ega-data
> glory1-vga-data
> glory2-data
> glory3-data

Similarly, I think these might be better as questforglory or quest-for-glory.
Again, these are new in git.

> heroes3-data

I note that there is already a game named heroes in Debian, and this is
not it. It even has a heroes-data package...

This one is *not* new in git so perhaps we should leave it alone for now,
but I would be tempted to call it heroes-of-might-and-magic3-data,
or perhaps homm3-data (HoMM seems to be a commonly used name for the series).

> simon1-de-data
...
> simon2-fr-data

These are a bit generic, too - a common first name that is also an unrelated
game (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_%28game%29).

    S



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