[Dev] [RFC] Voting about package naming for packages modified from Arch

[André Silva]

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On 08/29/2014 03:20 PM, Micha? Mas?owski wrote:
>> 5) a. Patch makepkg to make pkgrel more flexible (it is already
>> more flexible in pacman/alpm). d. When repackaging a package
>> (without modifying the packaged software), set its
>> pkgrel="${archrel}.parabola${parabolarel}" (which is enabled by
>> the makepkg patch mentioned above).
> 
> Ok, can be done independently of the renaming.
> 
>> b. When forking a package for freedom reasons, name the fork
>> with the '-libre' suffix (example: Linux-libre is a fork of
>> Linux (though it is not maintained by us)). c. When forking a
>> package for technical reasons, name the fork with the '-parabola'
>> suffix (example: patching makepkg as mentioned above would be
>> pacman-parabola).
> 
> Not ok, as explained earlier.  Doing (d) informs users that we
> change the package without adding any compatibility or upgrade
> issues of renaming and is simpler.  Debian-based distros change
> their equivalent of pkgrel.
> 
> Or is there any case of "forking" that results in incompatible
> packages that should not have replaces= or provides= arrays listing
> the original package?
> 
>> e. Whe packaging a kernel module package (or other package 
>> specific to a kernel version), name it 
>> "${_pkgbase}${_kernelname}" and give it 
>> pkgrel=${archrel}.parabola${parabolarel}.${_basekernel}" f. The
>> kernelname/version stuff we already just switched to.
> 
> Ok.
> 
> 

+1
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