Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-06-04 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 30 May 2003 22:34:01 -0400, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: As far as some kind of quicker fix goes, I proposed some time ago that policy be amended to let the libfoo-bar-perl just be provided by the package, if it made better sense to use something else for the package name.

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-06-03 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, 30 May 2003 22:34:01 -0400, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: As far as some kind of quicker fix goes, I proposed some time ago that policy be amended to let the libfoo-bar-perl just be provided by the package, if it made better sense to use something else for the package name.

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-31 Thread Joey Hess
I really think this should go to the debian-perl list so I'm sending it there. The libc-include-perl example below is one of the best arguments I've seen for changing the perl module naming scheme. It's a pity that we didn't think it through more before deciding on it. IIRC we just took the

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-30 Thread José Luis Tallón
At 09:27 29/05/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:44:22AM -0400, Deedra Waters wrote: [...] | If you look at the packages description, you will see thatit says This | module provides the Perl bindings to libcurl. In the description it | tells what the package is. | Could the

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-30 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
José Luis Tallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would probably be easier for th users if the name-mangling yielded libperl-curl-easy or libperl-www-curl instead of the current one... ...any reasons for doing it otherwise i have overlooked ? Debian Perl Policy is quite specific: Foo::Bar should

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-30 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Kalle Kivimaa wrote: José Luis Tallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would probably be easier for th users if the name-mangling yielded libperl-curl-easy or libperl-www-curl instead of the current one... ...any reasons for doing it otherwise i have overlooked ? Debian Perl Policy is quite

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-30 Thread Joey Hess
I really think this should go to the debian-perl list so I'm sending it there. The libc-include-perl example below is one of the best arguments I've seen for changing the perl module naming scheme. It's a pity that we didn't think it through more before deciding on it. IIRC we just took the

problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-29 Thread Deedra Waters
I'm including the messages below, because I'm hoping that maybe one of you can help me figure out how to respond to the upstream authors on this Basically the problem seems to be that they are very unhappy with the way that debian is naming perl modules, and I'm getting to a point, where I am no

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-29 Thread Andreas Metzler
On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:44:22AM -0400, Deedra Waters wrote: [...] | If you look at the packages description, you will see thatit says This | module provides the Perl bindings to libcurl. In the description it | tells what the package is. | Could the description at least explicitly

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-29 Thread José Luis Tallón
At 09:27 29/05/2003 +0200, you wrote: On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 12:44:22AM -0400, Deedra Waters wrote: [...] | If you look at the packages description, you will see thatit says This | module provides the Perl bindings to libcurl. In the description it | tells what the package is. | Could

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-29 Thread Kalle Kivimaa
José Luis Tallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would probably be easier for th users if the name-mangling yielded libperl-curl-easy or libperl-www-curl instead of the current one... ...any reasons for doing it otherwise i have overlooked ? Debian Perl Policy is quite specific: Foo::Bar should

Re: problems with upstream authors and the naming of perl modules

2003-05-29 Thread Thomas Viehmann
Kalle Kivimaa wrote: José Luis Tallón [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It would probably be easier for th users if the name-mangling yielded libperl-curl-easy or libperl-www-curl instead of the current one... ...any reasons for doing it otherwise i have overlooked ? Debian Perl Policy is quite