Re: Confusion about package naming -- please help!

1999-12-13 Thread Chris Rutter
On Mon, 13 Dec 1999, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > As Antti-Juhani says, use lowercase. It doesn't matter what directory > the .orig.tar.gz unpacks to; dpkg-source will cope. Don't extract it, > rename it, and recreate the .orig.tar.gz just to fix the directory name; > it's better to use "pristine sourc

Confusion about package naming -- please help!

1999-12-13 Thread Chris Rutter
I'm packaging mLib[1], a library much like `glib'. Now; I was under the impression that all package names had to be lowercase; i.e. I would be uploading `libmlib1' and `libmlib-dev'. However, in section 4.2.1 of v3.1.0.0 of the Debian Packaging Manual: 4 Control files and their fields [