[Guielines Change] Changes to the packaging guidelines

[Mat Booth]

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)

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

-- 
Mat Booth
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