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  • From: Eric Sandall <eric AT sandall.us>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Duplicated spells
  • Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 09:37:09 -0700

On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 15:56:58 +0200
Ladislav Hagara <ladislav.hagara AT unob.cz> wrote:

> > libnet-perl == perl-libnet ??
> >
> > Shouldn't we have some kind of standard to avoid this?
>
>
> Fixed, I just removed deprecated libnet-perl from test grimoire.
> We should follow upstream, of course only lowercases.
> Who pushes new spell into grimoire should check if "the same" spell
> with other name hasn't been already included.
>
> Personally I am against renaming of all spells in perl-cpan only to
> add perl- prefix. Of course if upstream perl module developers use
> the same name as upstream use, we have to add perl- prefix.

I agree, we should use what upstream calls it and only come up with a
different name if the spell name is already in use by another package
(and then both might need renaming for clarification, but that's up to
the guru).

> We need to standard keywords.
>
> Imho, we could create some SPELLALIAS= entry in DETAILS for names
> used by other distros and gaze search could use it.

No need for an alias, just add it to the KEYWORD entry, IMO.

-sandalle

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