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

[hellekin]

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Sorry for the encrypted mail...  I didn't resend it because I don't
think it brings any significant point to the debate.  It is available
here for the record:

On 08/29/2014 02:26 PM, hellekin wrote:
> On 08/29/2014 08:32 AM, Michał Masłowski wrote:
>> 
>>> It opens another similar question, should we follow the real
>>> name which we are using from the source, or the packages
>>> created from Arch?
>> 
>> Name the browser iceweasel, don't rename calibre, sdl, etc.
>> 
> *** I always found this very obnoxious.  In conversation what do
> you use?  Firefox?  Iceweasel?  Icecat?  Really, it's confusing,
> and it was just to mock the Mozilla branding policy.  It should not
> be a rule of the trade.  Calibre-libre is explicit: it's calibre,
> freed from the proprietary stuff.  In general, I would prefer
> upstream name, unless Arch, Debian, Fedora agree on something else,
> then it would be silly to bring more confusion.
> 
>> 
>> Do it like Debian: keep the original package names, rename source
>> files.
>> 
> *** Well, Debian tends to rename the packages to its
> nomenclature's taste. E.g. python-*, lib*-dev, ruby-*... I like to
> be able to figure out the package name from the source project, and
> having "mu" is more appealing to me than "mailutils" especially
> because the "mu" program (a "sup" like) is anterior to GNU
> mailutils' "mu" program.  Anyway, as long as naming is
> consistent...
> 
> But yes, suffixing the version instead of the package name is a
> good idea.
> 
> So to conclude, I'd favor <package>-libre when the source is
> changed to remove or replace dependencies on non-free software,
> with a one-one relation to the original package name, AND a
> -parabola suffix in the package version for branding.  The
> -parabola suffix then, would only appear in the version of
> packages, but not in the package name itself.
> 
> Therefore, a package from Arch called fubar v0.1.3, would become
> fubar v0.1.3-parabola in Parabola.  Another package offshore-wallet
> v0.2.4 with Adipo Flush(TM) support would become
> offshore-wallet-libre v0.2.4-parabola (maybe with GNU Gnash
> support).
> 
> My 2 pesos,
> 
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