[Bug 683587] Review Request: gsissh - An implementation of the SSH protocol with GSI authentication

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--- Comment #13 from Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert at fysast.uu.se> 2011-08-12 09:30:51 EDT ---
(In reply to comment #12)
> However, they are calling it "gsi_openssh" ...

Having an underscore in the name is a bad idea. The globus RPM packages are
named "globus-common" etc, and and not "globus_common" etc which are the
internal GPT package names, for good reasons.

The underscore is part of the set of characters allowed in package names in the
Fedora Guidelines, however its use is discouraged since the guidelines also
say: "When naming packages for Fedora, the maintainer must use the dash '-' as
the delimiter for name parts. The maintainer must NOT use an underscore '_', a
plus '+', or a period '.' as a delimiter."

Also, having an underscore in the name makes it impossible to comply with the
guideline that says "If this package has been packaged by other
distributions/packagers in the past, then you should try to match their name
for consistency", since other distributions like Debian don't allow underscores
at all in the package names.

Naming it "gsi-openssh" would be an acceptable name though - if that is
preferred. Looking at the upstream 5.1.1 alpha release it looks like upstream
did the right thing for their debian packages and called them gsi-openssh. Why
they screwed up with the RPMs I don't know.

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