Re: Names of ROOT packages in Debian

2006-12-09 Thread Florian Weimer
* Steffen Moeller: > I do not like "project" in the package name too much. If you think of > how "www.r-project.org" is presented in Debian (as r-..) then it would sound > strange to me to add "project" to a project that does not have "project" in > its name. It's less confusing than "root-sys

Re: Names of ROOT packages in Debian

2006-12-09 Thread Steffen Moeller
On Friday 08 December 2006 17:29, Florian Weimer wrote: > "root-project" instead of "root" could solve the problem. It's not > just that the name is too generic, your users might assume that > root-tail and root-portal are part of your packages. > > But you really need to get ftpmaster feedback.

Re: Names of ROOT packages in Debian

2006-12-08 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
hi Florian, On Fri, 2006-12-08 at 17:29 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Christian Holm Christensen: > > > Shared libraries: libroot5.13 for the core libs > > libroot-*5.13 for add-on libs > > Libdevel pkgs:libroot-dev for the core libs > > libroot-

Re: Names of ROOT packages in Debian

2006-12-08 Thread Florian Weimer
* Christian Holm Christensen: > Shared libraries: libroot5.13 for the core libs > libroot-*5.13 for add-on libs > Libdevel pkgs:libroot-dev for the core libs > libroot-*-dev for add-on libs These shouldn't be a problem, I think. > Plugins:

Names of ROOT packages in Debian

2006-12-08 Thread Christian Holm Christensen
Dear Debian Developers, I have filled an ITP [1] on packaging the ROOT [2] software, a suite of C++ classes, utilities, etc. designed for making large scale data analysis software in the Physical Sciences. It's considered to be part [3] of the DebianScience [4] `sub-project'. The packages are