On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 13:55 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 20:42 +0300, Ville Skyttä wrote: > > Do we expect users to browse into the upstream tarball distribution dirs > > and select the name of a tarball without the version etc and paste it to > > their command line (assuming that's what the above means)? Or select it > > from other documentation where the app/project name is very likely to be > > spelled in different case than in the tarball? And how about the rest > > of the guidelines which say that certain packages must be prefixed eg. > > by perl-*, python-*, or be named like $appname-$plugin? What about > > subpackages? > > Not just browsing tarballs, but documentation that says 'You need > PackageFoo' installed, or "You need ORBit2 to be able to use this, > please install it through your vendor". So the only way I would find > acceptable a 'lowercase always' rule is if in each case we are breaking > the upstream name we must have a Provides: UpstreamName . This argument applies everytime we change the name from the upstream provided one. We do that in many cases already. I dont see how this applies only to case sensitivity but not to other renames. Rahul -- fedora-extras-list mailing list fedora-extras-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list
