Naming of source packages (Was: [Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers] rcairo -- Cairo bindings for Ruby)

[Thierry Reding]

* Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thierry's proposal to join the team with rcairo makes me wonder about
> something : the naming of our library source packages.
> Currently, we have two schemes in the Debian Ruby community :
> A. ruby-something (think of ruby-gnome2), rsomething (think of rcairo),
>    etc ... generally the same name as the upstream software.
> B. libsomething-ruby (think of xmpp4r -> libxmpp4r-ruby, ruby-feedparser
>    -> libfeedparser-ruby. yes, that's my packages)
> 
> Which one should we favor ? I personnally prefer (B), since it makes it
> easier to go from binary package to source package.

I personally prefer (A), since it keeps the names consistent with upstream.
Then again, having one consistent naming scheme for Ruby packages does make
sense, and if most packages already use (B) then I don't have any objections
to renaming rcairo to libcairo-ruby. Or would it have to be librcairo-ruby?

> Apart from that, I'd of course approve Thierry's join of the team. I was
> the one who pointed it to pkg-ruby-extras.

Oh... I'm a "he" =)

Cheers,
Thierry

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