FS#62580 - [wireless_tools] Package name is inconsistent

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Julian Daube (joposter) - Thursday, 09 May 2019, 11:26 GMT
Last edited by Antonio Rojas (arojas) - Friday, 10 May 2019, 14:01 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Packages: Core
Status Closed
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Architecture All
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Description:
This might be nitpicking and i notice this, but why call the package

wireless_tools
---------^

when every other distro calls it

wireless-tools
---------^

e.g.
* the link to the project page
https://hewlettpackard.github.io/wireless-tools/Tools.html uses hyphen instead of underscore
* the ubuntu package is called wireless-tools

AND might i add that i personally would not expect a package name to use underscores in general

Once again this might be a personal gripe, but could someone at least clarify the
reasoning behind this notation?
This task depends upon

Closed by  Antonio Rojas (arojas)
Friday, 10 May 2019, 14:01 GMT
Reason for closing:  Not a bug
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Thursday, 09 May 2019, 14:16 GMT
pkgname may not contain - https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/PKGBUILD#Package_name
Comment by Julian Daube (joposter) - Thursday, 09 May 2019, 14:49 GMT
As said in the mentioned article, underscore and hypen are BOTH allowed in pkgname.
And i get that _ is allowed since e.g. the SDL2_image should conserve the original package name.

But what good does it do here?
Comment by loqs (loqs) - Thursday, 09 May 2019, 16:09 GMT
Apologies I should reread what I link to I was thinking of pkgver which can not contain -
using _ allows the source to be specified as source=("https://hewlettpackard.github.io/wireless-tools/${pkgname}.${pkgver}.tar.gz")
using - it would be source=("https://hewlettpackard.github.io/${pkgname}/wireless_tools.${pkgver}.tar.gz")
Comment by Julian Daube (joposter) - Thursday, 09 May 2019, 18:33 GMT
Ok i can kinda see where you are coming from on this one, but since you are hardcoding the other version of the name
either way, does it really make a difference?

The following packages ending with -tools are installed on my machine at the moment:

local/android-tools 9.0.0_r30-2
local/bluez-tools 0.2.0-4
local/ebook-tools 0.2.2-5
local/inotify-tools 3.20.1-1
local/kexec-tools 2.0.17-1
local/mono-tools 4.2-2
local/net-tools 1.60.20180212git-1
local/nrf5x-command-line-tools 9.8.1-1
local/pcsc-tools 1.5.4-1
local/qt5-tools 5.12.2-3 (qt qt5)
local/spirv-tools 2018.5-1 (vulkan-devel)
local/squashfs-tools 4.3-8
local/thin-provisioning-tools 0.7.6-1

wanna know, how many end in _tools ? Zero.

Please don't think i want to critizise you personally, but since even

https://www.archlinux.org/packages/core/x86_64/net-tools/

uses a hypen, does it make sense to use an underscore here?

Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Friday, 10 May 2019, 08:27 GMT
The tarball is named wireless_tools.29.tar.gz, so the naming is consistent with upstream. On at least Debian, _ is not allowed in a package name, so they use "wireless-tools" instead.

There's multiple packages with _ in the name, most of the times following upstream naming:
https://www.archlinux.org/packages/?sort=&q=_&maintainer=&flagged=
Comment by Julian Daube (joposter) - Friday, 10 May 2019, 09:16 GMT
Thank you for clarifying this.

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