Re: Package names and perl
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 07:37:33PM -0500, Duncan Findlay wrote:
> As I understand the perl-policy, all packages that contain perl modules are
> to be named in the form libfoo-bar-perl. I'm working on a program called
> SpamAssassin. While it contains perl modules, its primary purpose is for
> its scripts. Furthermore, it contains one binary written in C, so it can't
> be Arch: all.
>
> Do I name it libmail-spamassassin-perl, or do I name it spamassassin, or do
> I have to split the scripts from the modules (I don't see any point of
> that).
If the modules can be useful without the binary _and_ the binary is
large, it might be usefulto split it.
But if the package does not consist purely of perl modules, but just
contains them, it cannot be called a "perl library package" so there's
no point in naming it libfoo-perl.
I'm no expert, though :-)
Marcin
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