On Thu, 09 Jan 2014 13:38:16 -0500, James Antill wrote:
17:53:34 * RemiFedora can't find where confusion is. Current
guidelines seems
clear about "a now removed exception"
Remi, the Wiki page has been updated by Toshio three weeks ago already!
That's why it is _better_ and less confusing already, but not perfect. See
page history:
https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=Packaging%3ANamingGuidelines&...
17:54:02 <abadger1999> yeah -- I think it's just the
examples that he wants clarified.
Yes, as explained in the ticket, they have lead to confusion in the
gstreamer1-python review ticket. Note that *I* would have applied the
%parent-%child nameing guidelines for that package, but the package
submitter derived the package name from the examples and the _existing_
gstreamer-python package.
The guidelines also don't tell that the old packages need not be renamed.
The meeting log also adds something new, and that is new subpackages for
Python 3 may keep the old base name and need not prepend the python3-
prefix. That would be a clarification item, too.
17:55:01 <tibbs|w> I don't know; there's that wall of
text but nothing
actually saying what he'd like changed.
Only the FPC knows what naming scheme they want to be applied. I'm not
fond of the enforced %parent-%child scheme and would prefer staying closer
to upstream names.
17:55:50 <tibbs|w> So, yeah, clarify the examples as much as
possible but
don't actually change any guidelines unless someone tosses in a proposal
for what they actually want changed.
To drop from the examples the packages that apply the old naming scheme
and replace them with any packages that apply a python- prefix and follow
current guidelines. Use "python-foo" as a last resort.
17:58:54 <tibbs|w> I'm sure we'll get complaints (and
still no draft) if
that wasn't what was being requested.
The only one who complains here is you. :( Be thankful that I've taken the
time to inform the FPC about the confusion. Why publish such guidelines
and lots of text about %parent-%child relationship, if there is no real
interest in getting packagers/reviewers to follow those guidelines? Who
cares whether the package is named gst-python or gstreamer-python or
python-gstreamer?