New review comment by jcgruenhage on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/31998#discussion_r730266010 Comment: > isn't really better than I doubt most people start by searching for packages. People do `xi ${pkgname}` and if that fails, they go to the search. So I'd argue that this: ``` xi ansible-lint Package 'ansible-lint' not found in repository pool. ``` is definitely worse that it just working. > More, this particular proposal opens precedent to do `{python3,ruby,...}-foo` <-> `foo` rename churn, where we will have to judge if given package is library or command. Well, sorry to say but: - that's a bad reason IMO - that precedent has already been set by `youtube-dl`, `xmldiff`, `subliminal`, `setconf`, `pylint`, `pex`, `httpie`, `fonttools` and `flake8`, which is just the set I've found with skimming the output of `grep -r "transitional dummy package" -C 5`, so I wouldn't be surprised if there was more. > Existing transitional packages are either upstream renames, former functional packages that got removed (py2), or meaningful change (lua versioning). Given the list above, this point does not hold. I'd still pledge for the rename I can undo the rename for now to allow the updates to be merged sooner though, if we really can't agree here.