Name space pollution - there is another seqlib

[tillea]

Hi,
in the COVID-19 fighting effort of the Debian Med team where we try to package software that is relevant to do research on COVID-19 I stumbled upon seqlib as a dependency of some of the projects. That name was ringing a bell since we just have a package of seqlib ... but its a totally different project. I will file an issue on "the other seqlib" to trigger some discussion about a sensible name. In any case we need distinguishable names inside Debian and I would love to do this with both authors confirmance.
Kind regards, Andreas.

[isovic]

Hi,
Sorry for the slow response.
Sure, I could add a namespace to my code here. There are a few third party libraries in the libs folder though, which I'd rather not modify.
Which package depends on this seqlib?
Best regards,
Ivan.

[tillea]

Hi Ivan,

On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 12:38:43AM -0700, Ivan Sovic wrote: Sorry for the slow response.

Thanks for the response anyway. ;-)

Sure, I could add a namespace to my code here. There are a few third party libraries in the libs folder though, which I'd rather not modify.

It would be great if you could find a new / prefixed / postfixed name for the whole library as well. We just need to find a sensible name for the Debian package and have no idea whet might be sensible. Regarding the third party libraries (which I noticed) in Debian we link against the Debian packaged libraries anyway. Do you remember any patches you applied to those libraries?

Which package depends on this `seqlib`?

I stumbled upon seqlib when trying to package https://github.com/lbcb-sci/graphmap2 . Kind regards and thanks a lot for your cooperation, Andreas.

[tillea]

Any idea for a pre-/post-fix to the name or a changed name?

[tillea]

Hi again,

On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 10:09:45AM +0200, Andreas Tille wrote: > Sure, I could add a namespace to my code here. There are a few third party libraries in the libs folder though, which I'd rather not modify. It would be great if you could find a new / prefixed / postfixed name for the whole library as well. We just need to find a sensible name for the Debian package and have no idea whet might be sensible.

In mails on our mailing list people were refereing to your code as isovic-seqlib. I doubt that this is a really good name choice but at least it would solve the name space pollution issue and if you might not come up with some better suggestion I could imagine to use this. Kind regards, Andreas.

[tillea]

It would be really helpful if you could make some naming suggestion. Otherwise we'll probably go with isovic-seqlib.
Thank you, Andreas.