On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 14:18 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote: > Working as fast as I can... here is the first draft of the Naming Policy > for Fedora Extras. Its not 100% complete yet, there are at least two > sections missing, but it covers the bases for most new packagers. > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageNamingGuidelines > > Feedback is welcome, and encouraged. First of all a big thank you for doing this, a packaging standard for Extras (and for Core as well I hope!) is certainly most welcome and <cough> somewhat overdue :) Some comments after a quick read-through: 1) Version and release-tags: Package version should obviously follow upstream version in normal, sane cases but especially things like 1.0- pre1 need special rules to handle without epochs, those should be covered in this doc. The old fedora.us packaging guidelines doc, section C-3 (http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackageNamingGuidelines) pretty much covers these cases if you drop the 0.fdr tags from the rules. 2) While at versions and releases: can we *please* have a standard on release-tags. Current FC trees have a wild variety of things in there like "3jpp_2fc", in general a truly random FC3 vs fc2 dist-tags for some packages (disttags are just fine when needed but can we standardize on lowercase like with package names, please :) .. and so on. Just do 'rpm -qp --qf "%{release}\n" *|sort -u' on current FC-devel RPMS directory for giggles. Please let's have a standard of allowed characters in release and version tags as well since we're having one for names? 3) Addon packages: when a package is renamed, eg 'adodb' -> 'php-adodb' it *might* be a good idea to add the original name as a "Provides: adodb" so people looking for upstream naming can find it more easily. Oh and FWIW current rawhide contains quite a few packages other than pam_ and SDL_ with underscores in the name (see below). Of these the various apache mod_foo packages are numerous enough to warrant an exception rule of their own, others should perhaps be renamed? [pmatilai@chip RPMS]$ rpm -qp --qf "%{name}\n"|grep _ arptables_jf dhcpv6_client java_cup java_cup-javadoc java_cup-manual knm_new libart_lgpl libart_lgpl-devel lm_sensors lm_sensors-devel microcode_ctl mod_auth_kerb mod_auth_mysql mod_auth_pgsql mod_authz_ldap mod_dav_svn mod_perl mod_perl-devel mod_python mod_ssl nss_db nss_db-compat nss_ldap sg3_utils tcp_wrappers ttfonts-zh_CN ttfonts-zh_TW - Panu -
