Bug#377119: libsvn-javahl: package name violates Java policy

[Peter Samuelson]

[Charles Fry]
> According to the current java policy, section 2.4:
> 
>    "Java libraries packages must be named libXXX[version]-java (without
>    the brackets), where the version part is optional and should  only
>    contain the necessary part.
[...]
> In other words, if distributing the jar 'svn-javahl.jar', the package
> should be named 'libsvn-javahl-java'. Though I can't help but wondering
> about the value of the javahl part of the package name.

Yes, I wonder about that too.  The jar file really is named svn-javahl,
for historical reasons: there was once a second effort (now dead, I
believe) to produce java bindings which were not "high-level".

There is also an independent project out there, not affiliated with the
Subversion project and not in Debian, which reimplements svn client
functionality purely in java.  I don't know the name of their jar file.

So ... I'm CCing this to the debian-java list with a question: is it
reasonable to name a package 'libsvn-java' if the jar file it ships is
named svn-javahl.jar?  I really don't like 'libsvn-javahl-java' as a
name (reminds me of 'python-pyvorbis'), but if policy requires it,
we'll use it.

Thanks,
Peter
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