On Sat, Nov 13, 2010 at 12:45 AM, Tom Lane tgl@redhat.com wrote:
Michel Alexandre Salim salimma@fedoraproject.org writes:
I'm currently reviewing pgRouting: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=652533
the packager is currently using "postgresql-pgrouting" as the name, which is alright but a bit long. There does not seem to be a policy for naming DB add-ons yet (though I see a couple of postgresql-* packages).
Would the same policy applied as to, say, the Python add-ons? e.g. "if the name starts with [pP]y then you don't need the python- prefix".
In this case, "pg" would clearly indicate that it's to be used with PostgreSQL.
Please do NOT give it a name starting with "postgresql-". That would cause great confusion because people couldn't tell which RPMs originate with postgresql itself and which originate from other packages.
As Michel said there are many packages in the repo starts with postgresql-*, all of them are not a part of the actual postgresql. Eg: postgresql-pgpool
We need to correct them as well, if possible :)
I don't see anything much wrong with "pgrouting" as the package name.
regards, tom lane
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Thanks Viji