[Fedora-packaging] Correct name for php-pdb package?

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Thu Dec 20 20:25:37 UTC 2007


On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 20:20 +0000, Richard Fearn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a quick question about package naming.
> 
> I'd like to package php-pdb, which is a PHP library for manipulating
> Palm OS databases:
> 
> http://php-pdb.sourceforge.net/
> 
> Since the name already starts with "php-", I'm not sure what the
> package should be called - "php-pdb" or "php-php-pdb".
> 
> I did notice that the package for PHP-IDN is called php-idn, so I
> suspect I should call my package "php-pdb". Is that correct?

Yes. There is no need for pointless redundancy. :)

~spot, Department of Redundancy Department




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