Sorry for the large cc, but it is about time that debian had a unified policy on these package names.
On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Ben Burton wrote: > > Okay. Note that java policy states that "Libraries packages must be named > lib-XXX-java." I think the java policy is wrong. Why should java be any different than any other interpeted language, when naming packages? In fact, I see variations in python, perl, and java. This is what I would like to see: lib(name)-(language) Where name is the upstream name, appropriately named for the package. > Below we see an approximate list of all java library packages available in > debian. One observes that more than *half* of them are named > "libXXX-java" > instead of "lib-XXX-java". We even see libpgjava with no dashes > whatsoever. > > Does this bother anyone else but me? Yes, it does, but not for the same reason. > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~> apt-cache pkgnames lib | grep -e java$ | sort > [snip]
