tarball and top-level directory names

[Kenneth Porter]

I just built an RPM from perl-ldap-0.30.tar.gz, using cpanflute2 from the 
RPM::Specfile module. Because the tarball's name doesn't match the usual 
CPAN format (eg. Net-LDAP-0.30.tar.gz), the resulting RPM is named 
perl-perl-ldap. I imagine other CPAN-related utilities would have similar 
problems with it. Any particular reason the perl-ldap module uses that 
name? Just history? Apart from inertia, is there any strong reason not to 
change it to fit the pattern used by other modules?

This isn't a big deal; it just leads to odd names in generated packages or 
extra steps required to normalize them for inclusion in distros.

(For those interested in building the RPM, use "cpanflute2 --buildall 
perl-ldap-0.30.tar.gz".)