Naming guidelines question

Rahul Sundaram sundaram at fedoraproject.org
Fri May 26 15:19:55 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-05-26 at 10:13 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Hans de Goede wrote:
> 
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines says that
> > %{name} should use upstreams advertised name and/or tarbal name. But it
> > says nothing about capitalization. I thought that the rule was to always
> > use all lowercase even if upstream does things differently unless there
> > are arguments in favor of sticking to upstreams capitalization?
> 
> I don't think the NamingGuidelines cover capitalization, but I don't think
> it unreasonable to lowercase everything.  

It would be good to enforce lowercase in the guidelines I think.

Rahul




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