[Fedora-packaging] Vala packaging guidelines - are there any?

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 17:48:32 UTC 2009


Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Do we have packaging guidelines applicable for the Vala programming
> language?  I've reviewed a couple of packages now and they don't have
> a consistent naming convention.
> 
> eg:
> 
I think our generic naming guidelines[1]_ would recommend:

> vala         - the base package
> 
Fine.

> emacs-vala   - emacs mode
> 
Fine.  This is an addon to emace.

> gupnp-vala   - vala bindings for gupnp (universal plug'n'play) library
> 
vala-gupnp.  These are an "addon" to vala.

> vtg          - "Vala Toys for gEdit" currently under review here:
>   https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=484360
> 
gedit-vtg.  This is an addon to gedit.

.. _[1]:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Addon_Packages_.28General.29

If you think the generic guidelines don't apply or don't suggest the
correct thing, feel free to propose an addition.

-Toshio

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