[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs drill, libldns1, libldnsdevel, libunb(...)

Maciej (Matchek) Blizinski maciej at opencsw.org
Tue Nov 16 11:52:21 CET 2010


No dia 15 de Novembro de 2010 23:31, Philip Brown <phil at bolthole.com> escreveu:
> Hi Ihsan,
>
> I'm not sure this is a good idea. why are you choosing to rename?
>
> It's worth noticing that the software's own name, is "ldns".
> As noted by the URL that you still preserve in the pkginfo itself:
>
> http://www.nlnetlabs.nl/projects/ldns/
>
> so calling the package "libldns" seems to be against the author's
> wishes to some degree.
>
>
>
>
> and then there is the needless making it "libldns1" instead of just
> plain "libldns".
> What is up with this stuff?

You've read the proposal by now, so you probably know the idea of
naming packages after the shared libraries they contain.  In this
case, the actual library file is named libldns.so.1.6.7, hence the
package name.


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