The amendment goal is to address a usability issue introduced in the original design of target based dependencies and was discussed in a recent pitch thread on the topic.
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Starting with the SwiftPM version following 5.4 (exact number TBD), SwiftPM will actively discourage the use of the name attribute on the package dependency declaration (will emit warning when used with tools-version >= TBD) and instead will compute an identity for the declared dependency by using the last path component of the dependency URL (or path in the case of local dependencies) in the dependencies section.
While it is far from ideal, SwiftPM has been using the last-path component of the package URL for identity purposes for a long time. Our goal is to address that with SE-0292. Until that point, I think SwiftPM should reject such URLs.
With that context in mind, this amendment does not try to change the existing behavior in that sense -- it only removes the requirement of setting an explicit name attribute which has to match the one the package author picked in their manifest file.
SE-0226 Amendment: Package Manager Target Based Dependency Resolution has been accepted. If you'd like to continue discussing this, please do so in that thread.