[alsa-devel] bat: naming conflict in distribution packages with Bareos/Bacula

[Lu, Han]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Clemens Ladisch [mailto:clemens at ladisch.de]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 12, 2016 4:03 AM
> To: Liam Girdwood; Takashi Iwai
> Cc: J6rg Steffens; alsa-devel at alsa-project.org; Gautier, Bernard; Lu, Han
> Subject: Re: [alsa-devel] bat: naming conflict in distribution packages with
> Bareos/Bacula
> 
> Liam Girdwood wrote:
> > On Mon, 2016-01-11 at 16:07 +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> >> J6rg Steffens wrote:
> >>> alsa-utils as well as bareos-bat (as well a some Bacula packages)
> >>> all contain a program called /usr/bin/bat, which causes conflicts on
> >>> various distributions ("basic audio tester" vs "bareos administration tool"
> >>> ("bacula administration tool")).
> >>
> >> [...]
> >> OTOH, if we all agree with renaming to something less likely
> >> conflicting, I'm all fine with it.
> >
> > What about prefixing "alsa" or "a" to to bat ?
> 
> Why not calling it basic-audio-test (like speaker-test)?
> 
> 
> Regards,
> Clemens

I prefer "alsabat" since there are many acronym "bat" in code and document already,
"basic-audio-test" is more clear but the name "alsabat" keeps sync with original name.

BR,
Han