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

[Esteban Manchado Velázquez]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 02:08:55AM +0100, Thierry Reding wrote:
> * 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 personally prefer (A), since it keeps the names consistent with upstream.
> Then again, having one consistent naming scheme for Ruby packages does make
> sense, and if most packages already use (B) then I don't have any objections
> to renaming rcairo to libcairo-ruby. Or would it have to be librcairo-ruby?

    I guess libcairo-ruby sounds better. I think the problem with the naming
conventions is Ruby module names vs. Ruby packages, so to speak. I mean, it
feels more natural (to me, anyway) to use libfoo-bar-ruby when upstream is
called Foo::Bar or similar, and perhaps it seems more natural to name the
package rfoo if upstream calls it Rfoo.

    But I think it's better sticking to a single convention (perhaps using
metapackages, as gnome-ruby, in the case of "Ruby packages"; in that case, I
would use the most similar name to upstream, instead of having a second
convention), and I prefer (B), as I already said.

    Regards,

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