Re: Naming policy for Perl modules (mass bug filing)

[Bastien ROUCARIES <roucaries.bastien@gmail.com>]

2010/3/23 Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@43-1.org>:
> Hi,
>
> the Debian Perl Policy asks for packages for the Foo::Bar module to be
> named libfoo-bar-perl [1].  Some packages do not adhere to this scheme:
>
>  opalmod               → libopal-perl
>  gnuift-perl           → libgnuift-perl
>  perl-mapscript        → libmapscript-perl
>  perl-tk               → libtk-perl
>  speedy-cgi-perl       → libspeedy-cgi-perl
>  exactimage-perl       → libexactimage-perl
>  perl-ifeffit          → libifeffit-perl
>  rplay-perl            → librplay-perl
>  nfqueue-bindings-perl → libnfqueue-perl
>  perlmagick            → libimage-magick-perl

In this case perlmagick is the upstream name, but we could create an
empty package  libimage-magick-perl that will depend on  perlmagick ,
or the reverse if needed, but thename perlmagick should be kept due to
upstream naming [1].

[1] http://www.imagemagick.org/script/perl-magick.php

Bastien