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by notpushkin 358 days ago
> The first prototype of debcraft will focus on unifying the current workflow adopted by most Ubuntu Developers at Canonical.

Is it the same debcraft as the Debian one? https://salsa.debian.org/debian/debcraft

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No, that's an unfortunate naming collision.

Canonical’s debcraft will be a close relation of snapcraft, rockcraft and charmcraft, built using the craft-application and associated libraries.

Please rename. No good will come from a name collision here. Especially for two pieces of software in the same problem space.
> No, that's an unfortunate naming collision.

Unfortunate? Ubuntu developers surely know what exists in Debian already, especially since both of them share the same packaging format (at least originally). They must have realized where the "deb" part of the name comes from, no?

I get how tempting it is to stick with a theme, but you're now running full speed into a name collision in the exact same space that you're attempting to work in. It's probably time to let go of that naming convention.
Not too late to rename.