[csw-maintainers] Package naming policy

[Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski]

No dia 28 de Dezembro de 2010 20:53, Dagobert Michelsen
<dam at opencsw.org> escreveu:
>> Working yesterday on this kind of stuff I remarked that the majority of
>> our development packages follow this convention and use _devel suffix
>> (116 of 117 explicitly identified as development packages). So it's too
>> late to use the _dev suffix without changing a lot of packages
>> name, even though I would preferred _dev as its shorter, deliver enough
>> information and its homogeneous with other distributions.
>
> Right, I was more focussing on the package name, where the old "standard"
> was sort of CSWfoodevel, but IMHO should be changed to be CSWfoo-devel.
> Nonetheless the shorter and more standard -dev would be even better.
> More opinions?

I'd vote for the shorter one, -dev.  The remaining "el" doesn't convey
any new information, except for being a tiny bit prettier.