[Fedora-packaging] any reason why "sdcc" package transforms pgms to non-standard names?

Tom "spot" Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Sun Mar 16 17:35:30 UTC 2008


On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 12:23 -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:

>   is this kind of transformation relatively common?  the build from
> the sdcc home page itself uses the regular names, so why is the fedora
> packaging rewriting those?  does this happen often?

Its not common, nor is it mandated by the packaging guidelines, except
in cases of binary namespace conflicts. I think it would be worthwhile
to ask the sdcc maintainer what the reasoning is for this.

~spot




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