Package naming query

[Christopher Stone]

On 10/20/06, Michel Salim <michel.salim at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm working on packaging libopensync-plugin-syncml and its
> dependencies, and came across libwbxml:
>
> http://libwbxml.aymerick.com:8080/wiki/Download
>
> The website refers to it consistently as libwbxml, but the tarball
> itself is called wbxml2 (despite the link to it being 'libwbxml
> v0.9.2'). SuSE also has this package and called it wbxml2.
>
> It seems that wbxml2 is a temporary name, since there was wbxml, an
> older version, that links against libxml2 instead of expat. So I'm
> tending to go with libwbxml, but there's the "keep compatibility with
> other distros" clause in the packaging guideline.
>
> Advice? Thanks in advance..

I think it would be okay as long as you add a "Provides" to keep
compatibility with other distros.