Excerpts from Laurie Clark-Michalek's message of Tue Jun 23 16:45:04 -0400 2009: > 2009/6/23 Andrei Thorp <gar...@gmail.com>: > > Excerpts from Vitaliy Berdinskikh's message of Tue Jun 23 16:06:28 -0400 > > 2009: > >> В Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:39:55 +0200 > >> Andrea Scarpino <and...@archlinux.org> пишет: > >> > >> > On 23/06/2009, Vitaliy Berdinskikh <skippe...@root.ua> wrote: > >> > > The original name is gstreamer-java > >> > But we have the policies, so if you want to package a project respect > >> > ours policies. > >> > please adopt java-gstreamer; after this, someone will delete > >> > gstreamer-java > >> > > >> > >> " > >> * If a Java library has a generic name, the package name should be > >> prepended with the title java- to help distinguish it from other > >> libraries. This is not necessary with uniquely named packages (like > >> JUnit), end-user programs (like Eclipse), or libraries that can be > >> uniquely described with another prefix (like > >> jakarta-commons-collections or apache-ant). > > > > I'd say that gstreamer-java is a generically named library, so it should > > probably be java-gstreamer. > > > > Thanks for clearing it up. > Why not just rename it java-gstreamer-java? That way we can respect > the archlinux policies, and also keep the origal name for anyone > trying to find it on the aur.
I chuckled. I assume this isn't a serious suggestion. Though it would solve it, it's not really a "solution". I'm think I agree with Andrea still. -- Andrei Thorp, Developer: Xandros Corp. (http://www.xandros.com) 'Ooohh.. "FreeBSD is faster over loopback, when compared to Linux over the wire". Film at 11.' -- Linus Torvalds
