On Thu, 31 Mar 2016 at 11:10:56 -0400, Holger Levsen wrote: > As you might have noticed, golang packages seem to have an, aehm, > interesting naming scheme, where they basically take the upstream URL > and turn this into a package name.
If I understand correctly, the URL of a Go package is ABI. For instance in <https://github.com/peterbourgon/diskv/blob/master/index.go>: > import ( > "sync" > > "github.com/google/btree" <<--- > ) I'm not defending that design decision, but given that it exists, having Debian package names mechanically derived from what you "import" (or "use" or whatever the language's idiom is) seems like A Good Thing. See also: the way we encode SONAMEs into C binary package names, and the name you "import" or "use" into Python and Perl binary package names ("import dbus.mainloop.qt" -> python3-dbus.mainloop.qt, "use Text::Markdown::Discount" -> libtext-markdown-discount-perl) S
