[Pkg-games-ubuntu] [Bug 778445] Re: Package name conflicts with chromium-browser

[Gabe Gorelick]

It's called chromium because the game was the only thing named chromium
before the browser came around. Now that there are two programs in the
archive with that name, it is confusing. But it has to point to
chromium-bsu so that it doesn't break any existing packages that depend
on it (although I'm not sure if there are any, and if there are they
probably could be easily migrated). chromium is now only in dapper and
hardy, so as soon as those reach end of life, I think it should be easy
to then make it point to -browser. It's also not a big deal for users,
since if you just search software center for "chromium," it's pretty
obvious what is what.

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Title:
  Package name conflicts with chromium-browser

Status in “chromium” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: chromium

  The package name "chromium" for "chromium-bsu" is assigned
  inappropriately and is confusing when taken into account the growing
  web browser chromium with the package name "chromium-browser" . Its
  nice that chrmoium-browser is the name given to the browser because of
  an already existing package called "chromium" but the name "chromium"
  to a shooting game will trick users to install it