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: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
