Wire-desktop: Linux: Debian (9.0) wire package name: please change! (wire-desktop)

[keypey]

Hi.

Debian 9.0 has "wire" package (see: https://packages.debian.org/stretch/wire).

Please, change wire package name (wire-desktop?).

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kp.,

[Strit]

That does not sound like this Wire. It sounds to be a library of coding protocols.

[keypey]

It is true! But Wire ("wire-desktop") [wire_2.11.2685_amd64.deb] has this same name "wire" too!
So: please change [Wire ("wire-desktop") [wire_2.11.2685_amd64.deb]] name to "wire-desktop".

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kp.,

[ffflorian]

I actually second that - it would be just a simple change in the package.json. In the current state it is quite hard to install the "Simple Wire encoding protocol command line tool" on Debian while Wire Desktop is installed (and vice versa).

What do you think @bennyn?

[lipis]

What should be the name though.. I think that will be the toughest one.. vote below ;)

[lipis]

wire-app

[lipis]

wire-desktop

[bennycode]

In terms of consistency wire-desktop wins (if you ask me) because it's written all over the place (and it's the GitHub repository name). Looking at the package.json, our current value for name (which is wire) would indicate that our project is a light, fast and flexible JavaScript IoC container (https://www.npmjs.com/package/wire).

[ConorIA]

@lipis even with #463, the package is still building for me as wire_2.11.2721_amd64.deb. Not sure why, but it seems at some point in the build process the name inelectron/package.json goes back to wire. Is this just happening on my machine?

Edit: I think it is happening during the release-prod Grunt task because info.json still uses "Wire" as name.

[lipis]

right.. but is that an actual problem?

[ConorIA]

Well, it is insofar as the changes you made do not produce a Debian package called "wire-desktop" unless the name is also changed in info.json.

[ffflorian]

@lipis

The problem is not the filename - the package wire already exists in a Debian repository:

 $ dpkg --info wire_2.11.2685_amd64.deb | grep Package
 Package: wire
 $ dpkg --info wire_0-20161027-0git287d8ca-1_amd64.deb | grep Package
 Package: wire

This is not an actual problem until we want to offer automatic updates via a Debian repository (see Debian Policy 3.1) or someone wants to install both packages. Anyways I think it's bad practice. :slightly_smiling_face:

[lipis]

I'm with you guys to change it.. I just forgot that we are updating the package name :) Will test tomorrow on how it affects other platforms and if everything is fine, we can update it. My previous update was a bit useless.. the issue remains.

[ffflorian]

Fixed in f01b4332428cbc74787d1a18fe7625d27321a786.