Re: Shared library naming and dashes
> > 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
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