[csw-maintainers] [PATCH 4/5] checkpkg: Adding MakeCatalognameByPkgname

[Dagobert Michelsen]

Hi,

Am 13.02.2011 um 12:41 schrieb Maciej Bliziński:
> 2011/2/13 Ben Walton <bwalton at opencsw.org>:
>> This is good.  It doesn't force what the standard catalog name is, it
>> simply ensures that they match and tosses an error otherwise.  This
>> makes a good deal of sense to me.  Presumably there are other parts of
>> the code that look at things like 'devel' vs 'dev' etc?
> 
> The devel vs dev issue has been recently questioned[1] and not
> resolved.  I planned to implement that check when the issue is
> resolved.  The conversation started on pkgsubmissions, when I sent
> libffi packages for release, working towards resolution of the ctypes
> module problem in Python.  The conversation has stalled.  We've
> established that from the people who care about this issue, 4 are for
> -dev and 1 is for -devel.  However, Phil hasn't acknowledged that fact
> and still hasn't released the libffi packages.  I can't say I'm happy
> with issues being stalled like this.
> 
> Maciej
> 
> [1] http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/pkgsubmissions/2011-February/002185.html
> [2] http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/pkgsubmissions/2011-February/002190.html

Is there any new input? If no I suggest getting to a vote.
(1) CSW*-dev   *_dev
(2) CSW*-devel  *_devel
While the current OpenCSW standard is (2) the solution (2) is short leaving
more space for package names, is consistent with other packaging projects
and without loss of meaning.


Best regards

  -- Dago