On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 1:41 PM Marián Konček <mkon...@redhat.com> wrote: > > I know that in Fedora package names are usually prefixed with the name > of the language they are shipped in their binary form. We have "perl", > "python", "ruby", "rust" and probably some more. > > I heard that Java packages for historical reasons do not abide this > convention. Do you think we should unify them? I see 2 minor benefits > costing a lot of porting work: > * Java packages will be easier to search for when doing changes on the > JDK side > * consistency with the rest of Fedora
I'm not sure I understand your argument - or maybe there's a misunderstanding on your side? There is no "prefix the package name with the programming language" rule in Fedora. There are only some language-specific package naming rules, which *sometimes* have stricter rules than the general guidelines for package naming. There is no rule for naming packages for a python project "python-foo" just because "foo" is written in Python. Many Python packages are just named like the upstream project (for example, "rust2rpm" is a Python application, and ships an importable Python module - but since the main use case is the CLI, there's no sense in making the package name "python3-rust2rpm"). The rules for Rust packages are a bit different than for Python - but only for crates that are published on crates.io. Those are *required* to use the "rust-" prefix. But other packages that just happen to be written in Rust are actually *banned* from using the "rust-" prefix, since that is reserved for Rust projects that are published on crates.io to avoid name clashes. So I don't think it would make sense to have a general rule to prefix Java applications with "java-" unconditionally, either. Fabio -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
