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Application developers typically do not decide package names (unless they provide their own package repository), distribution maintainers do. Package names may change over time, and might be different for different distributions (or even between different versions of the same distribution), even if they use the same package format.

Of course, application developers may decide anyway to keep track of package names for their N favourite distributions and display them on their website. But to me it comes across as a waste of useful space.



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