Pierre Neidhardt <m...@ambrevar.xyz> writes:
> Dan Frumin <dfru...@cs.ru.nl> writes: > >>> Shouldn't we name this "dungeon-crawl-stone-soup"? >>> >> >> Possibly, but the official packages from crawl.develz.org are called `crawl' >> and `crawl-tiles'. > > Maybe packagers use abbreviated names, often with underscores or simply > no word separator. > > I think we should not follow what other packagers do, but rather what > the _users_ expect. The full program name is much more certain to be > known to the wider audience rather than some abbreviation that is only > known to the set of developers / restricted community members. This is what our packaging guidelines say: --8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8--- 14.4.2 Package Naming --------------------- […] Both [variable name and package name] […] correspond to the lowercase conversion of the project name chosen upstream, with underscores replaced with hyphens. --8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8--- -- Ricardo
