[Fedora-packaging] Fedora Packaging Committee Meeting - Dec 2, 2009 - 1600 UTC

[Tom "spot" Callaway]

On 11/24/2009 12:44 PM, Remi Collet wrote:
> So I think decision go to FPC and must be written in the PHP Guidelines
> 
> Choice :
> 1- package must use only -
> 2- package must use - at the beginning (php-pear-) and _ at the end
> 3- package could use - or _ according to packager pref.

Well, the way the guidelines are now is that _ can only be used as part
of the upstream name, and not as a separator. So, if the upstream name
is HTML_Javascript, then the package can be either:

php-pear-HTML_Javascript

or

php-pear-HTML-Javascript

depending on the packager's preference.

However,

php_pear_HTML_Javascript is not acceptable, because _ should never be
used as a separator.

Unless you're proposing that PHP be excepted from these rules, I'm
inclined to simply leave the guidelines as is.

~spot