[Pkg-octave-devel] Choosing a sensible name for a new package split from octave3.0
Rafael Laboissiere
rafael at debian.org
Mon Sep 15 09:02:47 UTC 2008
* Stéphane Glondu <steph at glondu.net> [2008-09-13 11:19]:
> Clearly, -common and -data are clearly the most common general-purpose
> suffixes for architecture-independant packages. I would probably use
> -common in your case.
* Ben Finney <ben+debian at benfinney.id.au> [2008-09-13 20:10]:
> Rafael Laboissiere <rafael at debian.org> writes:
>
> > octave3.0-common (although, this package will not be "common" to several
> > other, only to octave3.0)
>
> This would be my preference. It's common across architectures, which
> is a sensible enough semantic fit.
* Raphael Geissert <atomo64+debian at gmail.com> [2008-09-13 17:21]:
> Why not just octave3.0-scripts? (note the missing 'm').
> It would make more sense than a -data or -common package to me as it really
> describes the content.
Thanks for your replies. I think we are leaning towards octave3.0-common.
This was also the suggestion of Thomas Weber in a thread in
pkg-octave-devel. Otherwise, octave3.0-scripts would be a good name if the
package contained only scripts, but this is not going to be the case.
Cheers,
--
Rafael
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