Package: developers-reference Severity: wishlist Hi,
I wonder whether the developer's reference should offer recommendations for the naming of packages along the lines of:
- for source packages do not blindly take the name of the upstream tarball but consider something related to the binary package's naming scheme (rationale: namespace for source packages seems to be fairly polluted. In particular having binary and source packages of the same name seems undesirable) - for libary packages, the package name should match with the soname (as checked by lintian) unless there is a compelling (non-aesthetic) reason not to. (rationale: the lintian warning seems to be a good way to indicate when something unexpectedly happened to the soname if the package started out using a name lintian does not warn about) Kind regards T. -- Thomas Viehmann, http://thomas.viehmann.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
