jack2

Orcan Ogetbil oget.fedora at gmail.com
Wed Jul 21 04:25:09 UTC 2010


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 10:04 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
>> > question is why the package name is jack-audio-connection-kit? As far
>> > as I know the package name should be derived from the main tarball
>> > name.
>> >
>>
>> I thought about doing that once. Jack1's and jack2's source codes are
>> distributed on the same website [1],  We know that JACK stands for
>> Jack-Audio-Connection-Kit.  So there shouldn't be any confusion.
>>
>
> "jack-audio-connection-kit" is the official name of the project and it
> has been the suggested name for packages.

Yes. Therefore I think we are safe from the guidelines' point of view:
"When naming a package, the name should match the upstream tarball or
project name from which this software came."
from http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageNamingGuidelines#General_Naming

Orcan


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