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

Robert P. J. Day rpjday at crashcourse.ca
Sun Mar 16 18:56:32 UTC 2008


On Sun, 16 Mar 2008, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:

> 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.

okeley dokeley.  thanks.

rday
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