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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 03:05:06PM +0200, Uwe Steinmann wrote:
> 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.

The current consensus among the php4 maintainers is that packages for
PEAR modules ought to be called php-*, and packages for PECL modules
(and extensions shipped with php4) ought to be php4-* and php5-* as
appropriate.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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