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FS#1077 - perl modules packages' names do not follow a common scheme

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Brice Carpentier (brice) - Tuesday, 06 July 2004, 20:53 GMT
Last edited by Damir Perisa (damir.perisa) - Wednesday, 23 February 2005, 20:32 GMT
Task Type Bug Report
Category Packages: Extra
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7 Wombat
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 40%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

example :
perlxml
libwww-perl
htmlparser
perl-gtk
perl-gtk2
sdl_perl
timedate

Notice that the packages' names are often not even the modules' names.
I think what could be interesting would be to make the perl module package naming a little more uniform.
I'm personnally naming my perl module packages perl-something.
Example :
perl-xml-twig
perl-xml-write
perl-date-manip
perl-html-tree
and so on.

Comments welcome ;)
This task depends upon

Closed by  arjan timmerman (blaasvis)
Wednesday, 27 July 2005, 09:23 GMT
Reason for closing:  Implemented
Comment by Brice Carpentier (brice) - Tuesday, 06 July 2004, 20:54 GMT
I forgot to tell that having a common naming scheme would ease the search for modules (as far as dumb users are concerned)

Just my 2ยข
Comment by Judd Vinet (judd) - Wednesday, 07 July 2004, 02:52 GMT
Thoughts, Eric?
Comment by Eric Johnson (eric) - Friday, 30 July 2004, 16:13 GMT
All of mine have been renamed (including python modules). There are also TODO items posted on /devel, so I'll leave this bug as open, but reassign it to one of the other devs.
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Wednesday, 25 August 2004, 08:57 GMT
ok i am done next one is up.
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 20:24 GMT
how far is this ?
Comment by Damir Perisa (damir.perisa) - Thursday, 10 February 2005, 20:50 GMT
sorry about this forgotten bug ...

i have only 2 perl things:

dailystrips
bioperl

both are very standalone and i don't think, renaming them would help ... they are more apps than modules (bioperl is lots of modules, but it is a big pkg known everywhere by "bioperl" and not perl-bio or perl-bioperl)

thoughts?
Comment by arjan timmerman (blaasvis) - Tuesday, 26 July 2005, 17:41 GMT
do not rename them i think this bug is resolved by now then ;)

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