[Guielines Change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

[Vít Ondruch]

Dne 29.1.2015 v 19:37 Mat Booth napsal(a):
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> On 29 January 2015 at 09:50, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones at redhat.com
> <mailto:rjones at redhat.com>> wrote:
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>     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
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>     Good to have this clarified.  However java packages don't appear to
>     follow this convention.  eg:
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>     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
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>     Does this mean we need to rename all Java subpackages?
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> All language binding sub-packages are named this way, no?
> (subversion-perl, plplot-ada, xen-ocaml, etc)
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> But doesn't this guideline refer to naming the base package, not
> sub-packages? Does it need clarifying further?
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The package == SRPM in this context. It does not apply for subpackages.
Use of -perl, -ruby and -java suffixes for specific language bindings is
well established practice.

But this might be just my opinion :)


Vít
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