[Fedora-packaging] Naming Policy (first draft)

Ville Skyttä ville.skytta at iki.fi
Thu Feb 24 17:07:40 UTC 2005


On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 14:18 -0600, Tom 'spot' Callaway wrote:

> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageNamingGuidelines
> 
> Feedback is welcome, and encouraged.

One point I did not already see mentioned: it's a good idea to check
also what the rest of the world uses for a package's %{name}.  If
there's a common trend to call it something, and it does not conflict
with the rest of our guidelines, it'd be a good idea to follow that.

Some places where this can be easily checked:
http://rpm.pbone.net/
http://www.rpmseek.com/
http://rpmfind.net/

Somewhat related example case:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/149532




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