Re: Source package naming for Perl modules
Daniel Ruoso <daniel@ruoso.com> writes:
> I would stick to lib*-perl unless the project has a cultural identity by
> itself, like mime-tools does. I think it should be completely case by
> case.
> I, in the other hand, strongly discourage the use of perl-something or
> something-perl (unless it's how the project is called by the community).
> If there's a need to call "something-perl" or "perl-something" it's
> better to stick to the standard schema. I mean, we don't need more than
> one standard for that.
Yeah. It arguably would have been nice if we'd standardized on
perl-<module> way back when, but, well, we didn't, and changing isn't
worth it. I think having the source package named the same as the binary
package is extremely nice and not something to drop lightly.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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