[maemo-developers] [maemo-developers] Package naming

[From: Murray Cumming]

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> Hi!
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> I wonder if there is some convention for naming packages in Maemo. Some
> libraries are named with a lib* prefix (e.g. libgtk2.0-dev) some aren't
> (hildon-fm-dev).
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> I have named the C++ wrappers for hildon libhildon-fmmm and
> libhildon-widgetsmm but I wonder if this is correct.

I think we need to distinguish between the 2 names (though I don't know
what to call these two types of name).

For instance, for gtkmm (which I am fairly sure is correct, because it's
based on the Ubuntu/Debian package), it's in a gtkmm2.4 directory (not
libgtkmm2.4):
http://repository.maemo.org/contrib/pool/2.0/free/g/gtkmm2.4/

But the packages are (correctly) called libgtkmm*. For instance:
http://repository.maemo.org/contrib/pool/2.0/free/g/gtkmm2.4/libgtkmm-2.4-dev_2.6.11-0maemo1_armel.deb

So, the question is, why do your hildon-*mm packages appear in a
libhildon*mm directory:
http://repository.maemo.org/contrib/pool/2.0/free/libh/libhildon-fmmm/
instead of a hildon*mm directory.

> Another question: Is it possible to remove packages from the repositry
> because e.g they have a wrong name?


Murray Cumming
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