Bug#41113: Proposal: Naming Conventions for modules

1999-08-01 Thread Joey Hess
Stefan Gybas wrote: > I would also prefer such a scheme. What about colons in package names? > I know that they are currently not allowed but is there a technical > reason not to allow them? According to footnote 14 in the packaging > manual, colons used to be legal. Was this changed when epochs we

Re: Bug#41113: Proposal: Naming Conventions for modules

1999-07-20 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, >>"Stefan" == Stefan Gybas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Stefan> Joey Hess wrote: >> # dpkg --print-avail libperl- Stefan> I would also prefer such a scheme. What about colons in Stefan> package names? Illegal, since we intriduced epochs. Stefan> I know that they are currently

Bug#41113: Proposal: Naming Conventions for modules

1999-07-19 Thread Stefan Gybas
Joey Hess wrote: > # dpkg --print-avail libperl- I would also prefer such a scheme. What about colons in package names? I know that they are currently not allowed but is there a technical reason not to allow them? According to footnote 14 in the packaging manual, colons used to be legal. Was this

Re: Bug#41113: Proposal: Naming Conventions for modules

1999-07-17 Thread Rob Tillotson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Java extensions are called packages. > > > > Now why should genuine Python modules get a "lib" component in their > > package name ? > > Because C conventions tend to be Unix conventions? I would argue th

Bug#41113: Proposal: Naming Conventions for modules

1999-07-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
Gregor Hoffleit wrote: >I'm not sure, but I think debian-java adopted a similar naming >convention for their Java extensions; at least this is halfways true >for the two packages I found in the archive (libpgjava and >libgnu-regexp-java) and for the packages I saw discussed in the >debian-java li

Bug#41113: Proposal: Naming Conventions for modules

1999-07-16 Thread Joey Hess
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 mod

Bug#41113: Proposal: Naming Conventions for modules

1999-07-14 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
FYI: Alexander Reelsen filed bug#41113 against debian-policy, which is of interest for debian-java, debian-python as well as debian-perl: On Sun, Jul 11, 1999 at 11:10:22PM +0200, Alexander Reelsen wrote: > The following is a proposal to add some rules to the debian policy concerning > the naming