Re: Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)

[Philipp Kern <trash@philkern.de>]

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On 2010-03-23, Jozef Kutej <jozef@kutej.net> wrote:
> what should be the motivation and reasoning for spending time on this task? as
> it will require change on the package it self, all the packages that have it as
> dependency, plus an transition effort in order to make the upgrades work
> properly. can you list the benefits?

It's consistent.  I'm always annoyed when looking for a Perl package that
apt-cache search lib<module>-perl doesn't turn up something but another
search phrase might have.

(Hint: <module> isn't always unique among the packages.)

Kind regards,
Philipp Kern