[Guielines Change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

Richard W.M. Jones rjones at redhat.com
Thu Jan 29 09:50:34 UTC 2015


On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 09:03:05PM -0600, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> Clarified the naming guidelines to indicate how language bindings are
> named: lua-randomdb instead of randomdb-lua:
>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#Addon_Packages_.28General.29

Good to have this clarified.  However java packages don't appear to
follow this convention.  eg:

antlr3-java-1:3.5.2-2.fc21.noarch
plplot-java-0:5.10.0-11.fc21.i686
R-java-0:3.1.2-1.fc21.x86_64
tzdata-java-2014j-1.fc21.noarch

Does this mean we need to rename all Java subpackages?

Rich.

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