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Re: Naming for PHP pear modules in Debian - Was: Re: PHP pear modules for Debian



On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 01:14:49PM +0100, Martin List-Petersen wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 09:57, Andreas Tille wrote:
> >
> >    http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2004/debian-devel-200402/msg01713.html
> > 
> > started a thread about packaging php pear modules.  I have a special
> > interest but absolutely know knowledge about PHP and thus I'm not
> > qualified to take over this job.
> 
> And to bring that naming issue up again. Wouldn't it be best just to call them
> libpear-something og libphp-something ?
> 
> That is the naming scheme mostly used all over Debian (libapache, libperl, etc.)
> 
> I think something like that probably should be defined, before they are introduced.
There are already some packages from pear and pecl with a different
naming scheme. The packages coming with php itself are just called
php4-<name>. That would imply that packages from pecl should be using
the same naming scheme. We may discuss whether 'pecl' should be part of
the name. But actually an extension in pecl doesn't differ from one
shipped with php. There will also be no risk of a name clash, because in
the long run the php distribution will be a collection of php extension
coming from pecl and the current php base. I vote for php-<name>.

Packages in pear are written in php and in so far different from pecl
packages. It might be a good idea to make this clear in the debian
package name. libpear-<name> would be ok.

Just my 2¢

  Uwe
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