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Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)



Hi,

the Debian Perl Policy asks for packages for the Foo::Bar module to be
named libfoo-bar-perl [1].  Some packages do not adhere to this scheme:

  opalmod               → libopal-perl
  gnuift-perl           → libgnuift-perl
  perl-mapscript        → libmapscript-perl
  perl-tk               → libtk-perl
  speedy-cgi-perl       → libspeedy-cgi-perl
  exactimage-perl       → libexactimage-perl
  perl-ifeffit          → libifeffit-perl
  rplay-perl            → librplay-perl
  nfqueue-bindings-perl → libnfqueue-perl
  perlmagick            → libimage-magick-perl

(dd-list attached below; the list is based on data from Feb 23 [2])

I believe these modules should be renamed to have a consistent naming
scheme in Debian instead of using a prefix "perl-" or omitting the "lib"
for some packages.

Unless there are objections I will file bugs of severity "normal" in a
few days for these packages.

Regards,
Ansgar

[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/perl-policy/ch-module_packages.html#s-package_names
[2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2010/02/msg00062.html
Luciano Bello <luciano@debian.org>
   imagemagick (U)

Alan Boudreault <aboudreault@mapgears.com>
   mapserver (U)

Pierre Chifflier <pollux@debian.org>
   nfqueue-bindings

Debian GIS Project <pkg-grass-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org>
   mapserver

Debian QA Group <packages@qa.debian.org>
   gnuift
   rplay

ImageMagick Packaging Team <pkg-gmagick-im-team@lists.alioth.debian.org>
   imagemagick

Daniel Kobras <kobras@debian.org>
   imagemagick (U)

Francesco Paolo Lovergine <frankie@debian.org>
   mapserver (U)

Ola Lundqvist <opal@debian.org>
   opalmod

Nelson A. de Oliveira <naoliv@debian.org>
   imagemagick (U)

Andreas Putzo <andreas@putzo.net>
   mapserver (U)

Bastien Roucariès <roucaries.bastien+debian@gmail.com>
   imagemagick (U)

Michael C. Schultheiss <schultmc@debian.org>
   perl-tk (U)

Carlo Segre <segre@debian.org>
   ifeffit

Jose Carlos Garcia Sogo <jsogo@debian.org>
   speedy-cgi-perl

Colin Tuckley <colint@debian.org>
   perl-tk

Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>
   speedy-cgi-perl (U)

Jakub Wilk <jwilk@debian.org>
   exactimage


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