Re: 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

1999-07-19 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 Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Saturday 17 July 1999, at 11 h 55, Chris Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > No; but, with < 5 people developing Python modules I suspect it's not > much of a problem. I don't think we are much more for Java: Debian has very few Java modules, except the Java virtual machines and the comp

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

1999-07-17 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Jul 17, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Friday 16 July 1999, at 13 h 21, the keyboard of Joey Hess > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And get a list of perl modules [1]. But I can't do that. I can with python > > modules though, which is very nice. > > Is there a formal policy for Python? I sear

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

1999-07-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Friday 16 July 1999, at 13 h 21, the keyboard of Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And get a list of perl modules [1]. But I can't do that. I can with python > modules though, which is very nice. Is there a formal policy for Python? I searched it and found nothing. As far as I know, th

Re: 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

Re: 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