[Guielines Change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

[Richard W.M. Jones]

On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 06:37:26PM +0000, Mat Booth wrote:
> On 29 January 2015 at 09:50, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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?
> >
> 
> All language binding sub-packages are named this way, no? (subversion-perl,
> plplot-ada, xen-ocaml, etc)

I suspect the guideline is meant to regularise the current situation.

libguestfs packages a lot of language bindings, so I have an interest
in this.  Currently all the bindings use <language>-guestfs or
similar, *except* for the Java one.

> But doesn't this guideline refer to naming the base package, not
> sub-packages? Does it need clarifying further?

The situation with packages like plplot, libguestfs, etc is they ship
their own language bindings as subpackages -- the language bindings
are not separate packages.  But I think it's still best to proceed
with naming as if they were separate packages, to minimize end-user
confusion.

It could need clarifying further.

Rich.

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