On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:36:00PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 11:10:44PM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> > [Brian Nelson] > > > * Package name : qt-x11-opensource > > > Version : 4.0 beta 2 > > > Upstream Author : Trolltech AS > > Is there some reason for the "-opensource" in the name? > It's the upstream name. For whatever reason, Trolltech has chosen > different names for each major release: > Qt1: qt > Qt2: qt-x11 > Qt3: qt-x11-free > Qt4: qt-x11-opensource > Qt5 will probably be qt-x11-foss or qt-x11-freeasinspeech or something > equally annoying. > > That's a pretty redundant designation for something in Debian main, > > don't you think? I'd probably go with "qt4" or "libqt4" or "qt4-x11" > > for the source package name. > I was thinking about naming it qt4-x11, but I'm not sure it's worth > deviating from upstream. Sure it is: qt4-x11 tells people what it is, and qt-x11-opensource is loopy. There's no obligation to keep the source package name the same as the upstream tarball name. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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