https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1175023 --- Comment #37 from Gerald Cox <gbcox@xxxxxx> --- (In reply to Ralf Corsepius from comment #34) > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:NamingGuidelines#General_Naming > > "When naming a package you can take some cues from the name of the upstream > tarball, project name from which this software came, and what has been used > for this package by other distributions/packagers in the past. Do not just > blindly follow those examples, however, as package names should strive to be > consistent within Fedora more than consistent between distros. You should > generally use lowercase and turn underscores into dashes unless there's a > compelling reason to follow a different upstream convention." > > Until today's very unpleasant FPC meeting this was meant to read as a > suggestion to use the tarball name, which should only be diverged when there > are compelling reasons to diverge from this rule. E.g. name clashes with > other packages or historic reasons. > I don't understand where you're getting that interpretation. It simply doesn't say that. In any event, if I agreed with that reading (which I don't) you state "suggestion to use" - how is that a blocker as you infer in Comment #16? > Also take into account that we are talking about the rpm-names. Dnf and yum > are case insensitive in some aspects of package name handling, but rpm > itself (which is the only thing that matters here) is case-sensive. Which aspects are case insensitive? I just did a test on package vim-X11. dnf remove vim-x11 doesn't work dnf install vim-x11 doesn't work Those are the commands that folks are going to be using most of the time; and that is the problem. This to me illustrates why the guideline encouraging the use of lowercase is a value add to Fedora. You don't have to research how something is spelled, you know names should be in lowercase, and underscores are hyphens. As I mentioned in ticket #541, it's much easier to install my-favorite-package than My_faVorITe-package. What is the value add to Fedora to keep mixed case names? I don't get it. Yes, I suppose it's a nod to upstream, but most of the time, they could really care less. The majority of folks understand there is value to a uniform, consistent naming policy. > > This is different from Debian/Ubuntu which has always had a "lowercase only" > naming convention and whose tools (to my knowledge) are completely lowercase > only. I completely understand why they choose that path. Again, what is the value add for Fedora to do otherwise? -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug. You are always notified about changes to this product and component _______________________________________________ package-review mailing list package-review@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-review