Difference between depName and packageName?

[byronmccollum]

I'm having some difficulty understanding the difference between depName and packageName, and when you would use one over the other? I didn't find much detail in the docs, except for these few lines...

From the regexManager docs:

You must have either a depName capture group or a depNameTemplate config field
You can optionally have a packageName capture group or a packageNameTemplate if it differs from depName

[rarkins]

depName is essentially the "display name" while packageName is the actual package name used to do the lookup.

If in doubt, just use depName. When packageName is blank, it defaults to depName's value. In most cases they're the same.

Sometimes though the name of the package is quite long, and you don't want that full name in commit messages and PR titles. So when you use both depName and packageName, depName is used in logs, commit messages and PRs while packageName is used to do the actual lookup from package registries

[byronmccollum]

Thank you!