On Fri, Dec 06, 2013 at 11:56:17PM +0100, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > I would add the ‘perl-’ prefix, unless the package stands alone (for > instance, Hydra would be called ‘hydra’, not ‘perl-hydra’.)
Yes, that would be as for python. > For the rest of the name, I would take the Perl module name. So > ‘XML::Parser’ leads to ‘perl-xml-parser’, etc. > > In cases where there’s not a single module tree root, I would stick to > the upstream name, removing any redundant ‘perl’ in the name. So > ‘libxml-perl’ (which provides modules under XML::, Data::Grove, etc.) > would lead to ‘perl-libxml’. > > How does that sound? All very reasonable. Let us go for this (and I should add a section to the packaging guidelines later on). Andreas