Re: New version of zlib
Em Sáb, 2009-03-14 às 02:37 +1100, Trent W. Buck escreveu:
> Joachim Breitner <nomeata@debian.org> writes:
> >> Should I keep gtk2hs as it is, instead of changing it to
> >> haskell-gtk2hs or libghc6-gtk2hs?
> >
> > Yes, keep it as it is. Changing it is not worth it. Also, gtk2hs is a
> > “real name” and not just a generic name for a haskell library (such
> > has network, or zlib), so the missing haskell-prefix is not bad. I did
> > the same thing for xmonad.
>
> Expressing what (I think) is the same intenet, but paraphrased:
>
> Debian/Python people seem to have a convention of calling packages
> "python-foo" if it provides a library "foo", or just calling the package
> "foo" if it provides an application or utility called "foo".
>
> In the case of packages which provide both (e.g. docutils), I think the
> packager maintainer decides which is more "important" out of the library
> or the app/utility.
>
> So it is "gtk2hs" not "haskell-gtk2hs" because it provides a utility
> (right?)
No, it's a library. It's gtk2hs because when the package was made I
think that this policy wasn't so stablished, and we just left as it is.
And there's also Joachim's argument.
Greetings.
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