Package: debian-policy
Version: 3.8.0.1
Severity: minor
Hi,
Policy currently reads:
8.2 Shared library support files
[...]
Run-time support programs that use the shared library but are not
required for the library to function or files used by the shared
library that can be used by any version of the shared library
package should instead be put in a separate package. This package
might typically be named libraryname-tools; note the absence of the
soversion in the package name.
However, in practice the -utils suffix for the discussed type of
packages seems to be much more widely used than the -tools suffix that
is suggested by policy 8.2. On my system I get the following results:
$ dpkg -l \*-tools | wc -l
27
$ dpkg -l \*-utils | wc -l
38
I propose a change in the wording of the last sentence, maybe to
something like this:
This package might typically be named libraryname-utils or (at your
option) libraryname-tools; note the absence of the soversion in the
package name.
However, if this would be a real recommendation regarding the package
name for run-time support programs, we would need many transitional
-utils packages poiting to many newly introduced -tools packages in
the archive to become policy compliant. ;)
Cheers,
Fabian
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