Re: Libre games that might be worth packaging :)

[Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>]

Pierre Neidhardt <mail@ambrevar.xyz> writes:

> Dan Frumin <dfrumin@cs.ru.nl> writes:
>
>>> Shouldn't we name this "dungeon-crawl-stone-soup"?
>>>
>>
>> Possibly, but the official packages from crawl.develz.org are called `crawl' and `crawl-tiles'.
>
> Maybe packagers use abbreviated names, often with underscores or simply
> no word separator.
>
> I think we should not follow what other packagers do, but rather what
> the _users_ expect.  The full program name is much more certain to be
> known to the wider audience rather than some abbreviation that is only
> known to the set of developers / restricted community members.

This is what our packaging guidelines say:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
14.4.2 Package Naming
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[…]
   Both [variable name and package name] […]
correspond to the lowercase conversion of the project name chosen
upstream, with underscores replaced with hyphens.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---


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Ricardo