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Re: confirming some package names before creating them (was Re: [Pkg-puppet-devel] in need of a little help for packaing puppet development kit with all dependencies)



Thanks for the feedback, Georg,

I've sent the last remaining ITPs today and I'll try and get most of the
remaining packages together soon.

On 2020-02-24 8:48 p.m., Georg Faerber wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On 20-02-15 19:15:34, Gabriel Filion wrote:
>> For the following, here's what I'm intending to choose as a package
>> name (ITPs still need to ben sent). I think these are more probably OK
>> to be named without the "ruby-" prefix:
>>
>>  * jgrep
>>    -> this one seems rather clear to me since the main script can be
>> used independantly on the CLI to process any JSON information
>>  * facterdb
>>    -> this one is usually mainly used as a library but it does ship a
>> main script that can be used for printing a set of information from the
>> library
>>  * metadata-json-lint
>>    -> same situation as facterdb: it's mainly used as a library but it
>> does ship a script for running checks on a file independently on the CLI
> 
> Let's go with these, then.
> 
>> This one is a bit more tricky:
>>
>>  * ruby-pathspec
>>    -> it's mainly used as a lib but it does ship a script for testing
>> values on the CLI.
>>    * I've already sent an ITP for "ruby-pathspec" before I realized it
>> was shipping a script. So if I need to change the name, I'll just need
>> to know how I can deal with the ITP bug report to avoid issues.. send a
>> bts command to re-title, or is there another manipulation necessary?
> 
> That's the way to go, probably adding a small comment to the body of the
> mail to explain the name change.
> 
>>    * The script that's shipped is named "pathspec-rb" which differs from
>> the gem name "pathspec". Should the package take on the name of that
>> script, "pathspec-rb", even though the library itself is called
>> "pathspec"? it seems a bit confusing
>>    * "pathspec" is pretty generic and refers to a concept in the git
>> codebase, so I would possibly tend to keep "ruby-pathspec" as the
>> package name. what do others think about this?
>  
> Sounds good to me. Regarding the name of the script, in case this one
> gets installed into /usr/bin, I guess it makes sense to use the same
> name as well, as 'pathspec' is quite generic.


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