[csw-pkgsubmissions] newpkgs libffi5, libffi_dev

[Maciej Bliziński]

2011/2/6 Philip Brown <phil at opencsw.org>:
> On Sat, Feb 5, 2011 at 5:15 PM, Maciej Blizinski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
>> A takover from Mike Watters.
>>
>> Adds a patch (already pushed upstream[1]) which will probably allow to build
>> the _ctypes Python module on i386.
>>
>> There are two renames in this release:
>>
>> - libffi is renamed to libffi5
>
> Thanks for the heads up on that.
>
>
>> - libffidevel is renamed to libffi_dev
>
> erm... I asked Dagobert about this a few days ago for one of his
> packages,(well, its actually relevant to TWO, but I only asked on one
> of them) but no reply.
>
> Would you please remind me where and when it was agreed upon to start
> naming things "dev" instead of "devel"?

> _devel has been our defacto standard for a long time.
> we have 4 packages with _dev. but over 100 with _devel.

According to Dago[1], there are 4 different suffixes to dev packages
in use.  In a discussion about standardizing on one of them, there
were 4 voices [2] [3] [4] [5] supporting the -dev suffix.  There were
no voices against.  I conclude that there's consensus to use "-dev".

Maciej

[1] http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2010-December/013541.html
[2] http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2010-December/013546.html
[3] http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2010-December/013547.html
[4] http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2010-December/013548.html
[5] http://lists.opencsw.org/pipermail/maintainers/2010-December/013564.html