What to do about libc-client (imap)?

Warren Togami wtogami at redhat.com
Mon Sep 20 12:42:25 UTC 2004


Rex Dieter wrote:
> Possibly some legacy apps expect it to be named imap (which is what it 
> has historically been named).  Besides, IMO, packages should be called 
> by their upstream name/tarball whenever possible, unless there is good 
> reason to do otherwise.  Recent examples raised (including yours) 
> validates this:

I would agree that packages should be called their upstream name, but 
this should not be an absolute rule.

But if some "legacy apps expect it to be named imap", then that is 
horribly broken and stupid.  Except for certain special cases, you 
should always try to dep on specific versioned libraries (which RPM 
tries to do automatically) and not the *package* name.  Nobody suggested 
renaming the installed files.

imap-libs may very well be called uw-imap-libs just to be perfectly 
clear.  It wouldn't hurt anything.

Warren Togami
wtogami at redhat.com





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