Requesting ability to publish my pihole-by-rajannpatel as simply: pihole

[RajanNPatel]

I would like to request a name change of my snap, from pihole-by-rajannpatel to simply pihole

The snap should be installable via snap install pihole.

I am happy to republish it, but the name appears to be reserved.

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• name: pihole-by-rajannpatel
• description: strictly confined snap package for the Pi-hole project
• snapcraft: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rajannpatel/snap-pi-hole/refs/heads/main/snap/snapcraft.yaml
• aliases:
  • pihole
  • reasoning: the community knows the software by the name “pihole”. Today, they have to make the aliases themselves for the CLI portion, because I had to publish under a different name.

To the best of my knowledge, there is no existing snap alias already granted or a well-known Linux application conflicting with the aliases requested here. I am actively communicating with the upstream Pi-hole project, they attempted to make a snap in 2018 but abandoned the effort.

[store-requests-bot]

This request has been added to the queue for review by the @reviewers team.

[Lin-Buo-Ren]

I am happy to republish it, but the name appears to be reserved.

High-profile application names are reserved by default even if no one has registered it.

You should instead follow the regular snap name registration progress, and submit a request there when the system replied that the name is reserved.

The store-requests > aliases topic category is for requesting snap aliases.

[RajanNPatel]

Ah - good tip. I did try that, I wasn’t sure if it was in a black hole or not. It has been like this for a few days in the Store UI and we weren’t sure how to track progress:

[Lin-Buo-Ren]

You are in a name dispute, this means that someone already register the namespace and you’re requesting them indirectly via the store to yield to you.

This will take time as the store must first contact the original owner of the namespace, it may take even more if the owner objects with the transfer.

See the following thread as an example:

Ownership takeover request for the Tesseract OCR snap

Hello, I would like to request to take over the ownership of the Tesseract OCR snap currently published by @elopio. The snap is outdated and after the last communication attempt over a year ago(The Tesseract OCR snap's maintainance could be improved) I am unable to receive follow-up communication from them. Thanks in advance!

[mlathara]

Hi Rajan,

the upstream Pi-hole project…attempted to make a snap in 2018

So it seems like the upstream project did go so far as to register the name, which is why your snap name registration is in dispute. If you’re in touch with the upstream folks, perhaps they’d be amenable to a “friendly” transfer (i.e., they agree to the transfer?)

Melvin

[RajanNPatel]

Jacob Salmela and Alan Pope worked on it back in 2018. Alan’s here at Ubuntu Summit this year!

Alas, nobody remembers whose account it was reserved under.