Gregor Hoffleit wrote: > FYI: Alexander Reelsen filed bug#41113 against debian-policy, which > is of interest for debian-java, debian-python as well as debian-perl: > > Currently, the Python maintainers have an implicit policy to use a > naming scheme of python-foo-bar for all Python extension modules. > > If Alex proposal gains support, we may have to change this convention > to something like libfoo-bar-python (as I don't think the Perl people > would be glad to change their package names ;-).
I wish they would. Perhaps I'm in the minority, but when I want a perl module package, I know it's a perl module. I don't necessarily know the module part of the package name. So I'd like to type: # dpkg --print-avail libperl-<tab> And get a list of perl modules [1]. But I can't do that. I can with python modules though, which is very nice. -- see shy jo [1] I have zsh set up to do such command line completion of dpkg commands. Quite a time saver.