Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (322 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Am Montag 16 Juli 2007 schrieb Stanislav Brabec:
> Hallo.
>
> I saw many renames of packages in the last days. We follow shared
> library packaging conventions, but this policy says nothing about
> renaming of source package.
>
> I think, that it would be a good practice to use the same name for both
> devel and source package. It's more convenient and even simpler to do it
> in the spec.
>
> I propose to add following line to the Packaging/Shared Library
> Packaging Policy:
>
> "Source packages should in general omit $NUM as .src.rpm packages for
> different library versions and should follow -devel package naming."
>
>
> In practice it will bring more convenient .src.rpm naming and nicer spec
> files and less number of renames and drops in the repositories.
>
>
I don't see this followed in general. And just as we don't put "Don't shoot 
yourself in the foot" in our policies, I don't think we should put everything 
in there _not_ to do. Yeah, it opens some room for speculation and 
interpretation, but that is ok. We're working with engineers - mostly 
humans - not machines.

Just my 2 cents.

Greetings, Stephan

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