Bug#651671: Please rename the package (Perl policy violation)

gregor herrmann gregoa at debian.org
Sun Dec 11 13:25:08 UTC 2011


On Sun, 11 Dec 2011 13:37:51 +0100, Alessandro Ghedini wrote:

> > so It would be nice to rename the module to
> >   libtwiggy-perl
> IIRC, at the time this was uploaded for the first time, it was decided to 
> rename the package this way because it was mainly inteneded to be used as 
> standalone application (as per group's policy [0]). Same goes for the
> starman package.

Ack, that matches my memory (and the group's) policy.

The discussion actually came up several times during the last years,
pointing out that user who look for the well-known application <app>
will rather find the <app> package than the lib<app>-perl package.
 
> > So It would be nice to have two packages:
> I don't think splitting the package this way makes much sense given that the
> twiggy script is quite minimal. In the case this is going to be renamed, 
> the package libtwiggy-perl should just "Provides: twiggy".

2x ack.
 

Cheers,
gregor
 
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