Naming of source packages (Was: [Pkg-ruby-extras-maintainers] rcairo -- Cairo bindings for Ruby)

[Esteban Manchado Velázquez]

Hi,

On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:54:53AM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thierry's proposal to join the team with rcairo makes me wonder about
> something : the naming of our library source packages.
> Currently, we have two schemes in the Debian Ruby community :
> A. ruby-something (think of ruby-gnome2), rsomething (think of rcairo),
>    etc ... generally the same name as the upstream software.
> B. libsomething-ruby (think of xmpp4r -> libxmpp4r-ruby, ruby-feedparser
>    -> libfeedparser-ruby. yes, that's my packages)
> 
> Which one should we favor ? I personnally prefer (B), since it makes it
> easier to go from binary package to source package.

    I also definitely prefer B). And I guess most packages already have that
naming convention, so...

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