[Mageia-dev] RFC Package Naming Policy

Mon Jan 30 21:58:11 CET 2012

On 30 January 2012 20:15, Jerome Quelin <jquelin at gmail.com> 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.
+
+Well, the low case names policy did was a policy for years.
+We slowly killed most upcase names over the years, perl being an
+exception.
+I think we should enforce it modulo perl
+