Re: Shared library naming and dashes

[Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>]

> > AFAICT, I've summed up in 'Naming library packages' in libpkg-guide,
> > and created a little shell script 'd-shlibs' which contains 
> > a shell snippet to generate a package name from shared library name.
> > 
> > The logic used in the shell script is really simple; 
> > remove the .so., and add a '-' if it's ambiguous.
> 
> So, it seems to me like we do have a naming problem with some
> libs, that should be named, for example, libgnome-2-0. I am willing
> to go through the gnome packages and find such inconsistencies
> to file bug reports about them, but I think we should have the
> renaming scheduled for gnome2.6, leaving gnome2.4 in its
> current state.

There is an chicken-and-egg problem, where we can't 
have a widely accepted policy about library package naming
until we have the policy applied widely.

We're getting there, so please follow the practice 
documented in libpkg-guide (I don't think policy tries to 
be clear on what it says), for new packages, 
and leave existing packages as they are.



regards,
	junichi