[Mageia-dev] RFC Package Naming Policy

Mon Jan 30 20:15:49 CET 2012

On 12/01/30 18:24 +0000, Pierre-Malo Deniélou wrote:
+> Some of you may notice that the newly drafted policy allows
+> upper-case letters in packages as an exception (when justified).
+> This is to follow the current practice (which is not following the
+> current policy, where we have packages like R-base).
+> I don't want to raise a heated discussion (there was an inconclusive
+> discussion a long time ago on cooker [*]) about enforcing an all
+> lower-case policy. Not sure a consensus can be reached today, but
+> lower-casing package names should be the default for 99% of the
+> packages in Mageia.
+
+except it cannot be. perl module Foo::Bar is shipped in package
+perl-Foo-Bar since quite a lot of time, per policy. so the ~2500 perl
+packages are almost all using some upper-case, which make your 99%
+figure totally wrong (2500 / 10000 = ~25% using upper case)
+
+note that perl packages shipping an application or a script useful on
+their own do follow the policy and are called eg perlbrew, nopaste,
+grok, etc.
+
+sorry to disappoint you,
+jérôme 
+