[Fedora-packaging] naming of "documentation-devel" package

Ralf Corsepius rc040203 at freenet.de
Fri Jan 11 02:55:48 UTC 2008


On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 11:26 +1000, Jens Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> A package named "documentation-devel" has been submitted for review to 
> Fedora recently:
> 
> 	https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=427481
> 
> It provides a comprehensive set of tools used by the Red Hat Docs team 
> and some others to build documentation written in docbook and its 
> translations into various formats.
> 
> The question is can we keep the name as is, since they are not keen on 
> changing it, or should the name of the package be changed?
My 0.02€: 

Formally, wrt. the FPC, there is nothing wrong with this name, ...

The upstream package name choice is very unfortunate and raises false
associations/confusion on the users' side.

It should be changed do something more descriptive.

If I were reviewing this package, I would not accept this package.

Ralf






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