Re: Bug#41113: Proposal: Naming Conventions for modules

[Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>]

Gregor Hoffleit wrote:
> FYI: Alexander Reelsen filed bug#41113 against debian-policy, which
> is of interest for debian-java, debian-python as well as debian-perl:
> 
> Currently, the Python maintainers have an implicit policy to use a
> naming scheme of python-foo-bar for all Python extension modules.
> 
> If Alex proposal gains support, we may have to change this convention
> to something like libfoo-bar-python (as I don't think the Perl people
> would be glad to change their package names ;-).

I wish they would. Perhaps I'm in the minority, but when I want a perl
module package, I know it's a perl module. I don't necessarily know the
module part of the package name. So I'd like to type:

# dpkg --print-avail libperl-<tab>

And get a list of perl modules [1]. But I can't do that. I can with python
modules though, which is very nice.

-- 
see shy jo

[1] I have zsh set up to do such command line completion of dpkg commands.
    Quite a time saver.