[aur-general] Request: Removal of "java-gstreamer"

Laurie Clark-Michalek bluepeppers at archlinux.us
Tue Jun 23 16:45:04 EDT 2009


Why not just rename it java-gstreamer-java? That way we can respect
the archlinux policies, and also keep the origal name for anyone
trying to find it on the aur.

2009/6/23 Andrei Thorp <garoth at gmail.com>:
> Excerpts from Vitaliy Berdinskikh's message of Tue Jun 23 16:06:28 -0400 2009:
>> В Tue, 23 Jun 2009 21:39:55 +0200
>> Andrea Scarpino <andrea at archlinux.org> пишет:
>>
>> > On 23/06/2009, Vitaliy Berdinskikh <skipper13 at root.ua> wrote:
>> > > The original name is gstreamer-java
>> > But we have the policies, so if you want to package a project respect
>> > ours policies.
>> > please adopt java-gstreamer; after this, someone will delete
>> > gstreamer-java
>> >
>>
>> "
>> *  If a Java library has a generic name, the package name should be
>> prepended with the title java- to help distinguish it from other
>> libraries. This is not necessary with uniquely named packages (like
>> JUnit), end-user programs (like Eclipse), or libraries that can be
>> uniquely described with another prefix (like
>> jakarta-commons-collections or apache-ant).
>
> I'd say that gstreamer-java is a generically named library, so it should
> probably be java-gstreamer.
>
> Thanks for clearing it up.
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