[pkg-fso-maint] FSO package names and Debian BTS

[Joachim Breitner]

Hi,

Am Dienstag, den 19.08.2008, 20:01 +0200 schrieb Luca Capello:
> I think we need to find a policy for the package names, at least we
> still can do it since they are all outside the Debian official archive.
> 
> For source packages, whenever it's possible, I'd keep the upstream name.
> However, I'd prefix every package name with fso-: since this is already
> the case for framworkd and fso-utils, we need to do that for gsm0710muxd
> and zhone only because:
> 
> - Xglamo should generate an xserver-xglamo binary package
> 
> - I'm not sure there's any advantage in creating a Debian package
> 
> - zhone-session is not an FSO software

I’d prefer this policy: Packages with non-generic names (zhone,
gsm0710muxd, illume) keep their name. Only packages with overly generic
names (frameworkd, fso-utils) get the fso- prefix, to avoid namespace
pollution. Also, source and binary packages get the same name.

> About the Debian BTS, unfortunately it's not possible to set the
> maintainer field, thus I'm going to add a note into the wiki about how
> to use the X-Debbugs-Cc header instead of the Cc one.

Thanks.

> I'm going to reassign the bugs to the correct packages, since some of
> them were reported against the old frameworkd package.

Also thanks.

Greetings,
Joachim
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