On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Neil Williams <codeh...@debian.org> wrote: > On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 17:31:37 -0400 > Jonathan Yu <jonathan.i...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Strange, I've never seen a package name with a dot in it prior to the >> version number. > > openoffice.org* is a long list of packages that contain a dot that is > not part of a version and then there are all the libraries that have I think this different from what I'm asking, since in that case the software is actually called "OpenOffice.org." In Perl at last, packages are named like "Package::Name", while the Debian packages are called "libpackage-name-perl." If the only justification for naming Python modules that way is that it is more similar to the Python module names, one could make a similar argument for libpackage::name-perl (which is just plain strange) > libfoo0.1 and similar (where the dot is part of a version of types but > not 'the' version), then there are all the foo.app packages and the Yep, that's what I meant by 'version part' -- though not part of the actual package version, it does refer to a series (apache2.0 vs apache2.2 for example) of packages. This, I consider to be distinct from other packages like the Python ones.
Is this a Python-specific phenomenon, or do other packages in Debian exhibit the same patterns? > python-zope.foo packages. > > Seems quite common, albeit only the OOo ones are on my own systems. > > -- > > > Neil Williams > ============= > http://www.data-freedom.org/ > http://www.linux.codehelp.co.uk/ > http://e-mail.is-not-s.ms/ > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org