Re: Package Naming Guildelines for compat-lua packages

[Robert Scheck]

Hello Tomas,

On Thu, 04 Apr 2019, Tomas Krizek wrote:
>  This makes it difficult to search for lua packages and preferably,
> there
>  should be just a single naming scheme. Based on a discussion with
>  maintainer of lua-lpeg and lua-mpack [2], we've agreed to use the naming
>  scheme compat-lua-* 
wouldn't it have been a clever alternative to use lua52-* rather a quite
unspecific "compat-lua-" to be really similar with your python2/3 example?


Regards,
  Robert

Package Naming Guildelines for compat-lua packages

[Jason L Tibbitts III]

> >>>> "RS" == Robert Scheck
> <robert(a)fedoraproject.org&gt; writes: 
RS> wouldn't it have been a clever alternative to use lua52-* rather a
RS> quite unspecific "compat-lua-" to be really similar with your
RS> python2/3 example?

I made a similar suggestion in the packaging committee ticket.
"compat-" is nonspecific and goes against the naming conventions already
in the guidelines.  While it's true that we have some compat-\*
packages in Fedora, it shouldn't be perpetuated and certainly shouldn't
be made the basis for a new Lua naming scheme.

 - J<