[Debian-med-packaging] r11823 - trunk/packages/camitk/trunk/debian

[Emmanuel Promayon]

Thanks you for your quick and detailed answer.

I would also like to apologize for my lack of knowledge in packaging 
and debian policy. Please do not hesitate to comment and tell me what I 
am doing wrong.

Concerning the use of "imp" as a package name, "camitk-imp" seems a 
perfectly acceptable package name. I will change this.
Concerning the application name, is there any policy concerning 
binary/application name. For example, would "/usr/bin/camitk-imp" be 
acceptable or is it better not to have any dash in the name (e.g., 
camitkimp) ?

In libcamitk3-dev we have an application "/usr/bin/wizard", would it be 
better to prefix it with "camitk-" or "camitk"?

Kind regards,
Mahnu

On Wed 18 Jul 2012 09:29:34 CEST, Andreas Tille wrote:
> Hi Emmanuel,
>
> thanks for your work on camitk packaging.  I would like to bring some
> issue to your attention.
>
> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 08:56:11PM +0000, Emmanuel Promayon wrote:
>> Log:
>> init packaging (mainly thanks to Mathieu Malaterre)
>>
>> Modified: trunk/packages/camitk/trunk/debian/control
>> ===================================================================
>> --- trunk/packages/camitk/trunk/debian/control	2012-07-17 15:43:23 UTC (rev 11822)
>> +++ trunk/packages/camitk/trunk/debian/control	2012-07-17 20:56:11 UTC (rev 11823)
>> @@ -11,15 +11,15 @@
>>   Vcs-Browser: http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/debian-med/trunk/packages/camitk/trunk/
>>   Vcs-Svn: svn://svn.debian.org/debian-med/trunk/packages/camitk/trunk/
>>
>> -Package: libcamitk-tools
>> +Package: imp
>>   Architecture: any
>>   Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
>> -Description: Computer Assisted Medical Intervention Tool Kit
>> - Helps researchers and clinicians to easily and rapidly collaborate in
>> +Description: imp is the flagship application of the Computer Assisted Medical Intervention Tool Kit
>> + CamiTK Helps researchers and clinicians to easily and rapidly collaborate in
>
> The role of a flagship application certainly rectifies a better name
> than libcamitk-tools.  However, we do have the imp4 package inside
> Debian which is totally unrelated and might cause of confusion because
> users with no medical imaging background might confuse this with imp
> known from horde framework[1].  So if any possible I would advise for a
> more verbose package name (imp-camitk / camitk-imp or something like
> this - my phantasy in finding good names is limited but you might have
> got the idea).
>
> Regarding the binary name it seems that /usr/bin/imp is not yet given to
> any application but having three letter names for binaries is usually
> asking for name space conflicts at some point in time.  So while
> technically it is possible I would like to let you know this to take
> this into consideration.
>
> Kind regards
>
>        Andreas.
>
> [1] http://www.horde.org/apps/imp/
>

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Emmanuel Promayon
UJF-Grenoble 1, CNRS, TIMC-IMAG UMR 5525 (équipe GMCAO)
Institut de l'Ingénierie de l'Information de Santé
Faculté de Médecine - 38706 La Tronche cedex - France
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