On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 6:31 PM, Miklos Vajna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 08:16:05AM +0200, CSÉCSY László <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> 2008-09-26 napján Russell Dickenson ezt írta: >> > Why is the package named "imaging" when the Python package's official >> > name is "Python Imaging Library"? I understand that the imaging >> > package will have some git history associated with it. I can't >> > understand the original name that was given to the package. > > That's not a problem - git handles package renames properly. > >> /me wondered about this, too - maybe that's why I haven't found it when >> packaged uniconvertor, and even VMiklos didn't remember it when I asked him. > > Um, I don't remember about this discusstion. ;) So, it is named imaging, > because the upstream name is Imaging and we do not change upstream > names, apart from lowercasing them. > >> Maybe we should have some rules for package names? Like the perl crap? > > Maybe, but I don't think so. > > Example in most cases: > > upstream name | package name > > glib-1.x.tar.gz | glib (provides libgobject*.so) > Glib-* | perl-glib - you can see we can't avoid a rename here > pygobject-* | pygobject > > so, in case of perl, we are forced to do renames, in case of python, we > are not. Same goes for java. > > And yes, I'm aware that we have 22 pkgs named python-foo, but several of > them (like python-gnutls) are named that way by upstream. > > If we really want to do some progress in this area, then I think rox is > much more problematic: it has package names like 'mouse' or 'menu' :)
I now understand why "imaging" is named as it is. It's unfortunate when those upstream give their work names which are generic. It's makes life more difficult for those downstream - including Frugalware - when it comes time to package their software. I agree that the issue of the rox packages is even worse since there are many of them and most have generic names. I have no idea how this sort of situation might easily be avoided in future. So for the moment I'll be quite again... May you always be Frugal, Russell Dickenson (AKA phayz) _______________________________________________ Frugalware-devel mailing list [email protected] http://frugalware.org/mailman/listinfo/frugalware-devel
