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Resent-From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-guix@gnu.org Resent-Date: Tue, 09 Mar 2021 21:43:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 47028 X-GNU-PR-Package: guix X-GNU-PR-Keywords: To: 47028@debbugs.gnu.org Received: via spool by 47028-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B47028.1615326132805 (code B ref 47028); Tue, 09 Mar 2021 21:43:02 +0000 Received: (at 47028) by debbugs.gnu.org; 9 Mar 2021 21:42:12 +0000 Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48149 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lJk7I-0000Cv-Eb for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:42:12 -0500 Received: from tobias.gr ([80.241.217.52]:46524) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1lJk7F-0000Cj-0a for 47028@debbugs.gnu.org; Tue, 09 Mar 2021 16:42:10 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=tobias.gr; s=2018; bh=36MobBQkusOGbQrASsUOZk5LKr4rjLh3MKGvukrEOmE=; h=references: in-reply-to:date:subject:to:from; b=FujkcC7N7VamP9vqg7I2mJCDFFnFX908Bg psUHXiVAT7BiKtmMRJVZgKa6u9OTbcDjo+8MkNHsyL+z7HsVNIIay9D7yLShMFTLrrB4Bg JDWG2H1VqaT3zHSCXrj/xTqIWk78rHsTmuhzYLTYn1OEmriT4vxi+H8w92s2ZH0I9TbljA /eEoi6UwDH2DDM0Okj9NRaenp25qd/K06HzXt1sF7m0s/wNe/6O243/ytuk+z18UqIJfVE 7oX9gZ/aMYzy6hvFRlPKljON66XS7IvC0NQND22tzhmkrjPQl2jdAr8IxMMVX8/+wkgT0O YNoXCSWSJTzaL+eTKHrDYiECBiPQ== Received: by submission.tobias.gr (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id 20ca707d (TLSv1.2:ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384:256:NO) for <47028@debbugs.gnu.org>; Tue, 9 Mar 2021 21:43:06 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 22:41:57 +0100 Message-Id: <20210309214158.31754-1-me@tobias.gr> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.30.1 In-Reply-To: <87eegom2gk.fsf@nckx> References: <87eegom2gk.fsf@nckx> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-BeenThere: bug-guix@gnu.org List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Guix List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-guix-bounces+larch=yhetil.org@gnu.org Sender: "bug-Guix" Reply-to: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice From: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Bug reports for GNU Guix X-Migadu-Flow: FLOW_IN ARC-Message-Signature: i=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=yhetil.org; s=key1; t=1615326249; h=from:from:sender:sender:reply-to:reply-to:subject:subject:date:date: message-id:message-id:to:to:cc:mime-version:mime-version: content-transfer-encoding:content-transfer-encoding:resent-cc: resent-from:resent-sender:resent-message-id:in-reply-to:in-reply-to: references:references:list-id:list-help:list-unsubscribe: list-subscribe:list-post:dkim-signature; bh=36MobBQkusOGbQrASsUOZk5LKr4rjLh3MKGvukrEOmE=; b=LzkJaRzBM7ctGTudSwbFQP1KH1DeJlWlvSvPqh8Ijnba9zoDrKDtNmxFaOeD3KXXc7pKpz fui7gtx57eHx26Kq4zqgaDOJM9nBBGf8GAVjWHzwS/Z/oQw9cfusC/4+5DHW+kovw5K2dq Vg21KcgdmGWE/IxPEgE4+3pUgUlGpw7AERMSAPrhi/yOEAQvMAS4m5sfwO7NtX/J5VLGxX x2WOqWGv/PlItueARiHTWJhS8n66A8i8z69fVd94VdgDA8xWG8mWHs3cAfhz90/B47P1RV qmEDYTbWTdMYEJ0eXslFQ6cIcoheQ8qgVyrZYjS0753kqSVP2DBzQ1Yjr1LXZg== ARC-Seal: i=1; s=key1; d=yhetil.org; t=1615326249; a=rsa-sha256; cv=none; b=iIexAQqqsAQirMoZWttj3npw7ZItAB0EgXh6VaWeJVjKDDfJPt5q3DWUoE5Iv1bXdd2O00 cQvQLjdZs4g3GufHbyUeN/56xvbZm1octy9ZPL1bpoi5v1noQPzhVa0Lh1l+Xf/uuIJMIK rRb54V+F1RL6+0KJXCUlZYIZpLee3Cf5MIBR8u/B4s7wEf4yJVj9wLaYc2VUrud0GKs47n Rnkt0Ry+maXSFwKTtHN6Ujnif1EJjcxU0ze1XhuFHYm1fIF7Va28YyyWBTsl9m6PUSL044 DVBOmruBCmaPJgfSnKvvGZxF5yxGkWRMUZlKwiCwalUuH9GqlpCG2GAg9LU2EQ== ARC-Authentication-Results: i=1; aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=tobias.gr header.s=2018 header.b=FujkcC7N; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Spam-Score: 1.12 Authentication-Results: aspmx1.migadu.com; dkim=fail ("headers rsa verify failed") header.d=tobias.gr header.s=2018 header.b=FujkcC7N; dmarc=pass (policy=none) header.from=gnu.org; spf=pass (aspmx1.migadu.com: domain of bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org designates 209.51.188.17 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=bug-guix-bounces@gnu.org X-Migadu-Queue-Id: 9E14B275C8 X-Spam-Score: 1.12 X-Migadu-Scanner: scn0.migadu.com X-TUID: YnbmoUpG2tzR * doc/contributing.texi (Package Naming): Explicitly mention single-character and otherwise ambiguous names. --- doc/contributing.texi | 8 ++++++++ doc/guix.texi | 2 +- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index c9dd7d6c04..a3facdcadc 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -445,6 +445,14 @@ the project name chosen upstream, with underscores replaced with hyphens. For instance, GNUnet is available as @code{gnunet}, and SDL_net as @code{sdl-net}. +A noteworthy exception to this rule is when the project name is only a +single character, or if an older maintained project with the same name +already exists---regardless of whether it has already been packaged for +Guix. Use common sense to make such names unambiguous and meaningful. +For example, Guix's package for the shell called ``s'' upstream is +@code{s-shell} and @emp{not} @code{s}. Feel free to ask your fellow +hackers for inspiration. + We do not add @code{lib} prefixes for library packages, unless these are already part of the official project name. But @pxref{Python Modules} and @ref{Perl Modules} for special rules concerning modules for diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index f01e7ca89d..d726fa491f 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2021 Christopher Lemmer Webber@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Marius Bakke@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2019, 2020 Hartmut Goebel@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2019, 2020, 2021 Maxim Cournoyer@* -Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice@* +Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Tobias Geerinckx-Rice@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 George Clemmer@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017 Andy Wingo@* Copyright @copyright{} 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 Arun Isaac@* -- 2.30.1