>>>>> "PD" == Patrice Dumas <pertusus@xxxxxxx> writes: PD> Tired to tell everytime the same, I have put an argumentation PD> here: PD> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Packaging_Tricks#Use_of_common_namespace Well, I don't recall seeing a draft guideline anywhere; if you want to submit one, be my guest. I believe this needs to be in the actual guidelines. PD> I think that it would be better to tackle this issue cross PD> distribution, that is when we see a real conflict or a generic PD> name used, talk to the distribution list to agree on a name. My intent was that packagers would consult FPC in the case of questions, and that FPC could take appropriate action, including checking what other distros do and attempting to coordinate when possible. PD> A last word, I think that it is sad that we have to do a guideline PD> here, since upstream and packagers should understand the issue, PD> and we already have too many guidelines, but I also don't know how PD> to solve it differently, I am tired of looking at every submission PD> and whine if it smells like a generic name is used. These things are not always obvious to packagers, which is why we have guidelines and reviewers. The intent is to make the guideline as short as possible (because the alternative is to make it impossibly huge), but I don't think we can continue without some kind of guideline here. And as for getting tired of this issue, I guess the only thing I can offer is sympathy and advise that you get used to it. Many upstreams simply will not care, because to them people who use other similarly- or identically-named programs simply won't compile theirs. We, however, have to consider the uniqueness of filenames across the entire distribution, not just sets of installed packages. - J< -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
