Claire REVILLET a écrit : > Hi, > > Le 13/12/2012 09:00, Shlomi Fish a écrit : >> Hi Joseph, >> >> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:53:04 +0800 >> Joseph Wang<[email protected]> wrote: >> > [...] >>> * I'd like to add a rule (which is followed by current packages) that >>> the prefix "py" should >>> generally be removed from a package name. For example pyopencl >>> should be >>> called python-opencl. This is the current convention for packages in >>> mageia. >> I'm OK with it either way. > I disagree on that point: software and libraries names are choose by the > developers. > Who are we to change them ? > > Adding "python-" at the beginning of the package name for our own > organization is one thing, changing the name is another. > > And our policy only talk about upstream names containing the complete > word "python", not just "py". > > Claire > A package name is not a software name... and we have already some packages whose the name is not the same as in other distributions for reasons that belong to our and their organisation : look at JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit) for instance
- opensuse has a rpm simply called jack - Mandriva and Mageia need to name it jackit (because an other software, to rip cd, was already provided in a rpm called jack) - Debian and Ubuntu name their deb jackd or jackd1 (Debian too already used the name jack for the package installing the same cd ripper as Mandrake) - fedora and slackware call the rpm jack-audio-connection-kit (with lowercase...) Those distibutions have their coherency their needs : it's difficult to standardise the packages names for all the distributions because these names have an historical origin ! You can complain ... but that is how it is... For a distribution the need is coherence for its own packagers My two drachmes Philippe
