Le 17/07/2009 16:59, Mamoru Tasaka a écrit : > Christopher Stone wrote, at 07/17/2009 02:22 PM +9:00: >> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 9:26 PM, Mamoru >> Tasaka<mtasaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> Christopher Stone wrote, at 07/17/2009 11:59 AM +9:00: >>>> On Thu, Jul 16, 2009 at 1:35 AM, Mamoru >>>> Tasaka<mtasaka@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>>>> You must explain why you want to force to change understore to hyphen, >>>>> even if installed files actually uses understore in its name. >>>> So trying to think back to when we originally created the PHP >>>> guidelines, specifically for php-pear, I think we had already >>>> discussed this issue. You may want to search the packaging list >>>> archives, I forget when we formulated the guidelines. Anyway, I think >>>> the logic behind it was that the perl packages converted the :: to - >>>> in their packages. So in order to be consistent with the perl packages >>>> we used the same convention in the php-pear packages. There might be >>>> some other technical reason why fedora converts upstream's :: to - for >>>> perl packages which I'm not aware of however. But IIRC, that was the >>>> logic behind the package naming. >>> >>> perl modules have some underscore naming like >>> perl-Convert-NLS_DATE_FORMAT. We have no reason we must apply perl >>> naming rule here and again there is no reason we should convert >>> underscore >>> to hyphen >>> which would just cause confusion. >>> >>> Please think in the way that we need less guidelines as much as >>> possible. >>> If you have some reason *specific to php-pear*, please explain, and such >>> reason must be written somewhere properly. >>> >>> Mamoru >>> >> >> Then I guess we should search the packaging list archives and see if >> we can find the reasoning when the guidelines were being formulated. >> It must have been discussed or else the entire packaging committee >> misunderstood the guidelines at the time. The majority of the >> packages are owned by Remi and myself. I don't know how much work it >> will be to rename all the packages. Hi, First, I think this discussion should go to fedora-php-devel (a public place), as I'd like to heard from others (tim please ?) > > So at least for now we cannot justify why underscore should be converted > to hyphen, right? I'm still not convinced.. but probably because I hate underscore... > For me it is strange that you or Remi don't remember > that (, however I guess there was actually no _real_ reason anyway). > > If we cannot find out what was discussed, we must withdraw the proposal > about converting underscore to hyphen and at least new packages must > use underscore if upstream's naming uses it. > (However I think remaing php-pear related packages on Fedora is preferable > and it is better that such renaming should be begun as early as possible) :( really a big work > > Regards, > Mamoru > Best regards. _______________________________________________ Fedora-php-devel-list mailing list Fedora-php-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-php-devel-list
