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

Sun Aug 31 04:50:02 GMT 2014

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On 08/31/2014 12:31 AM, Luke Shumaker wrote:
> sticking _basekernel into pkgrel means that
> 
> 1) The maintainer doesn't have to dick around with pkgrel when
> just bumping _basekernel. 2) The package version reflects which
> kernel version the package was built for; otherwise the user would
> have to actually inspect the package to do this.
> 

Based on that propose ->
pkgrel=${archrel}.parabola${parabolarel}.${_basekernel}, lirc should
be, eg: lirc-1:0.9.1.a-3.parabola1.3.16

For a user, ...3.16 could means which it is a 1.3.16 revision of
parabola or another thing, a lot of users will could ask to us about
it everytime because some users don't know which bbswitch, lirc,
tp_smapi (except vhba-module because means "module" on the $pkgname)
are kernel module packages built by kernels.

You put "parabola${parabolarel)" because it means which
it's being maintained by us, so if you would put ${_basekernel} into
pkgrel for those cases, i propose:

pkgrel=${archrel}.parabola${parabolarel}.kernel${_basekernel}

and based on it, lirc could be -> lirc-1:0.9.1.a-3.parabola1.kernel3.16

"3.16" will be separated from parabola${parabolarel}, the same thing
than parabola${parabolarel} is for ${archrel}, so it will not confuse
the users anymore avoiding we respond questions about it everytime.
However, in my opinion i prefer
pkgrel=${archrel}.parabola${parabolarel} for all the cases because it
makes Parabola more KISS for us :)