One of the challenges of creating the Derivative Team [1] is managing the chaos introduced by the large variety of distributions[2].
As such, I would like to discuss some package naming guidelines for Ubuntu based derivatives. The two basic uses cases are customized packages and new packages. 1a. The French localization team is interested in customizing a package to make it local specific. 1b. The Newbuntu organization is interested in shipping a non-standard version of a package. 2. The Newbuntu organization is interested in shipping a package that is not in the Ubuntu archives. The catalyst for this discussion is avoiding the difficulties presented when debugging and upgrading automatics packages. 1. We want to make it obviously clear where a particular packages came from for debugging purposes. 2. We want to make it obviously clear when upgrading that a non standard upgrade path is being taken. Would it be appropriate to establish a standard where customized, non-standard, or new packages are prefaced by their distribution name. For example: firefox becomes Newbuntu-firefox mplayer becomes automatic-mplayer This follows that established pattern of ubuntu-desktop becoming kubuntu-desktop. 1. wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam 2. wiki.ubuntu.com/DerivativeTeam/Derivatives thanks -- David Farning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss
