packaging-committee

#878 Package Naming Guildelines for lua packages
Closed: accepted by tibbs. Opened by tkrizek.

Closed: accepted
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There should be a single, documented way for naming lua and compat-lua packages.

Proposed naming conventions:

upstream lua project: lpeg
fedora Lua 5.3: lua-lpeg
fedora Lua 5.1 (compat): compat-lua-lpeg

For details and discussion, see https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/DCNFJFXRIL3YAWLEPXGNHBVEQ5SMX2SZ/

cc @asn

Metadata Update from @james:
- Issue tagged with: meeting

Using compat-lua-anything is really not the best idea. What does "compat" mean? Obviously compatible with something, but that's not how we generally name things in Fedora.

So we should have lua for the currently supported version, and something like lua5.1 for an old version we're keeping around. This would naturally suggest lua5.1-lpeg for the version of that library compatible with the old version.

I'm fine with any convention as long as it's documented and universally used.

For example, Arch uses:

lua-lpeg
lua51-lpeg
lua52-lpeg

In Fedora the period in the version should not be dropped. Unless lua version 51 has been released, the package should be named with a prefix of lua5.1. Yes, there are packages that get this wrong.

Yes, there are packages that get this wrong.

For example Python packages, where we keep the naming scheme for consistency (I'm not particularly happy about this either, but...).

We talked about this at this weeks meeting (https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2019-04-11/fpc.2019-04-11-16.00.txt):

  • #878 Package Naming Guildelines for lua packages (geppetto, 16:50:07)
  • LINK: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-u-msgpack-python
    (mhroncok, 16:55:58)
  • LINK: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-into-dbus-python
    (mhroncok, 16:56:03)
  • ACTION: Pkg Naming guildelines (for lua), with tibbs change (+1:6,
    0:0, -1:0) (geppetto, 16:56:54)

Metadata Update from @tibbs:
- Issue assigned to tibbs

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- Issue tagged with: writeup

Commit 154fba78 relates to this ticket

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Metadata Update from @tibbs:
- Issue close_status updated to: accepted
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