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Re: Source package naming for Perl modules



Gunnar Wolf wrote:
> Julian Mehnle dijo [Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 01:15:36PM +0000]:
> > if you have 5 minutes of spare time, please read
> >
> > http://julian.io.link-m.de/misc/%23debian-perl_source-package-naming.txt
> >
> > 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$/.  (This is not about binary package names, which
> > should be named so without a doubt.)  Thanks!
>
> [...]
> And yes, I am all for moving mime-lite and similar abnormalities into
> the regular scheme. They are just exceptions. Three packages (out of
> over 1000 Perl modules currently in Debian) were mentioned - If they
> are not depended on all over the place, moving to a saner way will be
> in the interest of everybody. Even if they are quite popular as
> dependencies, of course, we can provide the older name.

Dependencies do not relate to source package names, which is all I was
talking about.

Julian.

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