CVSROOT modules,1.4108,1.4109 (fwd)
Andreas Thienemann
andreas at bawue.net
Fri Jul 1 02:25:53 UTC 2005
On Fri, 1 Jul 2005, Warren Togami wrote:
> http://cvs.fedora.redhat.com/viewcvs/rpms/ddrescue/?root=extras
> ddrescue has been in Extras for years now, you have imported a duplicate
> a copy. I have no idea why the package is named ddrescue instead of
> dd_rescue though.
Simple. PackagingNaming Guide says:
When naming packages for Fedora, the maintainer should use the dash '-' as
the delimiter for name parts. The maintainer should NOT use an underscore
'_', a plus '+', or a period '.' as a delimiter.
_BUT_
packages where the upstream name naturally contains an underscore are
excluded from this.
As the upstream names his package dd_rescue, it should track the upstream
name.
Thus the former name was actually wrong. Just because debian does use it
doesn't mean we should too. We are not using underscores as version
delimiters.
but what is the right way of renaming a package then? to the best of my
knowledge cvs doesn't offer that functionality?
regards,
andreas
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