On Sep 22, 2007, at 3:30 AM, Julian Mehnle wrote:
I think having the source package named the same as the binary packageis extremely nice and not something to drop lightly.Just for the record, freedom of choice, too, is extremely nice.
I think that is misleading. There is no real "freedom of choice" here since the "choice" leads to unforeseen consequences, namely the breaking of expected naming schemes. There was a freedom to choose in the beginning since any naming scheme had not yet been devised. Now that one has been devised, there is an expectation that module bar::thing be named libbar-thing-perl just as libfoo-thing-perl. That is how users expect to find CPAN modules named in debian, whether they provide a binary or not. Breaking that convention is not freedom to choose, rather a gratuitous re-naming that confuses and upsets users unnecessarily.
As you can see from the above, I am against the re-naming and prefer the scheme we currently have.
Jeremiah