On 05/02/2013 06:29 PM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 02/05/13 09:54, Johannes Weberhofer escribió:
Dear all,
I'm currently packaging several python packages, and found that there are several packages available in mixed case notation (E.g. python-PyYAML or python-Sphinx). There is al global rule documented in http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Package_naming_guidelines#Case_Sensitivity
, saying whenever possible lowercase package-names should be used.
I have found lots of packages (like php5-pear-Horde*) in the php section and also many others in the python section. Shouldn't that be cleaned up (as a long-term-target)? For cross-distribution projects it makes things a bit difficult, as e.g. Fedora uses the lower-case filenames of several python projects.
Johannes
I would just add a provides with lowercase name to existent packages and enforce the lowercase naming with new packages only.
Don't do that, ask the specific maintainers about their opinions instead. Adding provides for lowercase names re-introduces naming collision issues I explained elsewhere in this thread. Been there, done that. "Fedora does it" is not a justification per se. -- With kind regards, Sascha Peilicke SUSE Linux GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, D-90409 Nuernberg, Germany GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org