On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:37:56PM +0200, Michael Matz wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, 23 May 2007, Dirk Mueller wrote: > > > it was recently (in bugreport 277317) brought to my attention that we > > have three packages containing development files, but not being named > > with a "-devel" suffix: > > > > > wnn-sdk > > This is not a subpackage of something, but really a package in it's own. > IOW upstream calls it like so, we shouldn't differ without good reasons, > so this name would be IMO okay. > > > OpenOffice_org-sdk > > xorg-x11-server-sdk > > About these I'm less sure. The xorg-x11-server-sdk indeed only contains > stuff you usually would expect from your random -devel package. In one > way it's different: this package is for developing other X11 server code, > not for normal developers doing X11 stuff, i.e. more or less an artifact > of the big split of X11 into modules (I realize that this characterization > is a bit stretching). It could reasonably be named xorg-x11-server-devel, > but I don't see a big reason to enforce that name. It's not that anyone > who doesn't know the current name would want to have it. > > OpenOffice_org-sdk could also be named -devel I think. It mostly contains > IDL defs and UNO interfaces. OTOH it doesn't contain libraries to > directly link against, something which I would expect in a random -devel > package. > > > I was wondering if there is a special policy regarding the -sdk suffix > > that I'm not aware of? Shouldn't those packages be named -devel?
It's not a policy, but xorg-x11-server-sdk is the package name, that other distributors use for these files as well. I'm not aware of anyone using xorg-x11-server-devel. I don't see much benefit for renaming it besides from confusing our customers by constantling renaming our X11 packages. Best regards, Stefan Public Key available ------------------------------------------------------ Stefan Dirsch (Res. & Dev.) SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Tel: 0911-740 53 0 Maxfeldstraße 5 FAX: 0911-740 53 479 D-90409 Nürnberg http://www.suse.de Germany ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
