Bug#651671: Please rename the package (Perl policy violation)

[Alessandro Ghedini]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2011 at 01:18:38PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote:
> Package: twiggy
> 
> I spent much time to find the package. I even thought to build the
> package by myself, but apt-file helped me to find the package.
> 
> Traditionally perl modules are named as lib<module-name>-perl [1]
> 
> so It would be nice to rename the module to
>   libtwiggy-perl

IIRC, at the time this was uploaded for the first time, it was decided to 
rename the package this way because it was mainly inteneded to be used as 
standalone application (as per group's policy [0]). Same goes for the
starman package.

This [1] is what I found with a quick search, but I couldn't find the 
specific discussion about twiggy and starman use.

> The module aslo contains /usr/bin/twiggy. It could be left
> in module 'twiggy'.
> 
> So It would be nice to have two packages:
> 
> [...]

I don't think splitting the package this way makes much sense given that the
twiggy script is quite minimal. In the case this is going to be renamed, 
the package libtwiggy-perl should just "Provides: twiggy".

Cheers

[0] http://pkg-perl.alioth.debian.org/policy.html#package_naming_policy
[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-perl/2011/02/msg00099.html

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