And am I imagining it or does a baffling name tend to correlate with a short lifespan as a Debian package? It's getting close to the point where it also needs a rule 'never link to external docs assume linkrot is inevitable, and just link to the copy from the start'. It is okay if the explanation boils down to 'arbitrary nonsense-word' or 'random cool animal'. Xyzutils doesn't need an entry here if XYZ is genuinely self-evident or explained in the package description it's only for software that is or at least was in Debian (preferably Stable/Testing main), and it's ASCIIbetical by binary package.Suggested guidelines for adding to the list: Giving cryptic names to software is a well-established UNIX tradition, and the explanations are often missing from the documentation, either because the developers imagine it's obvious (usually wrongly) or because they think nobody cares (and here they're usually right, or it would turn up as FAQ material). An IT-etymology/linuxguistics page for people wondering 'how come the package yasysmand-cling has such a strange name?'
