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

[Paul van Tilburg]

Hey,

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:14:06AM +0000, Esteban Manchado Velázquez wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:54:53AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> > 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.

Note that ruby-gnome2 is just a meta package, there is a libgnome2-ruby
deb as well.

> > 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 also definitely prefer B). And I guess most packages already have that
> naming convention, so...

Yes, B.

Paul

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