[Fedora-packaging] Package naming help, please

Timothy Selivanow timothy.selivanow at virtualxistenz.com
Thu Feb 14 19:27:38 UTC 2008


On Thu, 2008-02-14 at 13:09 -0600, Rex Dieter wrote:
> Timothy Selivanow wrote:
> > The way I interpreted the Package Naming Guidelines[1], the package I'm
> > working on (pysvn) should be called python-svn.  Is this not correct[2]?
> > 
> > 
> > 1: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines
> > 2: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=428718#c11
> 
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#head-8756a3bce652c376d7ba3908461b638784b6952d
> 
> "There is an exception to this rule. If the upstream source has "py" (or 
> "Py") in its name, you can use that name for the package. So, for 
> example, pygtk is acceptable."
> 
> -- Rex

Thanks!  Somehow I missed that little blurb under the examples.  pysvn
also falls under the "how it is called" rule, as it is used as "import
pysvn".  So many documents...


--Tim
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