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 -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org