Re: Package names...
On Thu, Oct 21, 1999 at 08:46:55AM -0700 , David Bristel wrote:
> I apologise if this issue has been brought up before(and I suspect it has), but
> I am wondering if anything can be done to help clarify and group packages based
> on name. Currently, we have console-apt, gnome-apt, as well as apt-move, and
IMHO console-apt and gnome-apt have (almost) no relationship to apt (they use
it's package cache).
> the libapt-pkg. Is there a reason for the lack of consistancy? apt-console,
> apt-gnome, apt-move, these show they are related to the apt package. The same
Personaly I'm happier with {console,gnome}-apt that the reverse.
> can be said for many other packages and groups of packages. If we attempt to
> keep the package names with the base package-<something>, it will be a LOT
> easier to see what the package is related to. xf86-<something> for packages
> related to XFree86. apache-<something> for all those modules and related
for apache it's libapache_xxxx_mod. Python add-on modules use python-*,
perl modules use libxxx-perl.
> packages for Apache.
>
> This is just a thought, but if this change is acceptable, then it will make it
Discuss this on -policy list.
> easier for our users. Also, with some of the name changes we have seen
> recently, it would make sense if we had SOME sort of policy on this issue.
policy is, that libraries should have package names lib<soname>.
Petr Čech
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Debian GNU/Linux maintainer - www.debian.{org,cz}
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