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Re: Source package naming for Perl modules



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Il giorno Fri, 21 Sep 2007 13:15:36 +0000
Julian Mehnle <julian@mehnle.net> ha scritto:

> Hi all,

Hi,

> if you have 5 minutes of spare time, please read

Seems like I have just 5 mins :(

>   http://julian.io.link-m.de/misc/%23debian-perl_source-package-naming.txt

Reading...

...

...thinking...

> and give your opinions on whether, and under which circumstances, _source_ 
> packages of Perl modules in Debian should be required to be named
> /^lib.*-perl$/.

IMVHO, source package names shouldn't necessarily be named lib*-perl, yet the
binary packages MUST. A source package might, in fact, provide more than simply
the module, I can't see a real reason to call them lib*-perl. Yet, there is an
against: fixing all debian/{control,changelog}s. But I think that's minor work.

We could even use another approach, calling them perl-module. I mean, for
example, fot Hash::Case, the source package is perl-hash-case, which provides
libhash-case-perl. Or maybe it's too confusing. Just an idea, though. (Python
modules, for example, follow the "python-*" naming scheme)

Just my two cents.

> Thanks!
> 
> Julian.

Kindly,
David

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