Bug#484809: package naming recommendations

[Thomas Viehmann <tv@beamnet.de>]

Hi Raphael,

Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Your sentence is not clear. There are different cases IMO:
The original bug report is indeed far from drawing a complete picture. 
Thanks for fleshing this out, your cases seem to cover very well what I 
had in mind.

> - the binary packages are versioned and change regularly, the source
>   package should not change regularly and thus use a different name
>   (example: source "linux-2.6" and binary "linux-image-*")
Yes, still for something like libfooabcbar27 it would be more reasonable 
to name the source libfooabcbar instead of abc.

Kind regards

T.
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