Debian Packaging: Executable name 'desktop' and package name 'desktop' are ambiguous

[teward]

This is not really a full issue or bug report, but as an Ubuntu developer, I am acutely aware of the evils of package naming. This is a suggestion on the basis of my experience as a Packager.

The current binaries built for GitHub Desktop for Linux (RCs) are generated so that the package itself in the debian/control files and others is named desktop.

This is extremely ambiguous and unclear what it actually is, and makes understanding what is actually installed or usable or not equally more difficult.

If possible, I would suggest that you adjust the packaging so that the binary for GitHub Desktop is installed as github-desktop, and that the package name be adjusted as well. It currently installs as desktop and that is very ambiguous as to what it actually is.

[shiftkey]

@teward thanks for the report. We're already tracking this in #22, so please follow along with that issue.