#1099044 passage name conflicts with new package from ITP #1098893

Package:
passage
Source:
passage
Description:
game about the passage through life
Submitter:
Hoël Bézier
Date:
2025-10-04 16:23:02 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1099044#5
Date:
2025-02-27 15:46:00 UTC
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Dear Maintainer,

A software I’d like to package has a name conflict with your package. Since
yours is a GUI application and mine is a CLI command, would you consider
renaming your package and its command to passage-game?

Thank you,
Hoël

#1099044#10
Date:
2025-10-03 15:30:19 UTC
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Unless someone else from the Games Team objects to it, I’m going to
prepare a new upload renaming the package and binary to "passage-game" a
couple days from now.

#1099044#17
Date:
2025-10-04 16:21:16 UTC
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packages, this can create issues down the road if one is not
expericenced in Debian packaging quirks. (renaming src:passage also
breaks it's history in Debian tooling…)
It would be much cleaner to have a new name for the new package,
both binary and source.

Looking at passage:
Would it be a possiblity to see if the support for age could be
implemented in pass, the project passage forked from? This seems to
be the only difference, especially as upstream of passage doesn't look
quite active, last commit 1 year ago, and there are unanswered issues
and pull requests as well -- I fear it's development might have stalled
upstream, making the case for taking over the name "passage" weaker.