[Fedora-packaging] gstreamer packages naming?

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:31:43 +0100, Remi Collet wrote:

> Le 20/01/2014 06:41, Christopher Meng a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > There is a package review[1] of gstreamer editing services, I'd like
> > to know which prefix of package name is better, gst- or gstreamer-?
> > 
> > Because Fedora has a long history of naming Gtreamer packages with the
> > latter one prefixed, I'm puzzled now.
> 
> This package is a addon for gstream1 ?
> So gstreamer1 prefix seems better, for me.

Sounds odd to me.

According to the spec file, it's not a plugin/module that extends
GStreamer, but a library that creates a high-level API on top of the
GStreamer API. As such, it should keep its upstream package name and not
prepend any %{parent} prefix.

> > [1]------https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1019403