[users] Circular obsoletes between Dries and FE6 rrdtool Perl
bindings
Rex Dieter
rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Dec 5 21:52:26 CET 2006
Dag Wieers wrote:
> If you think you can pour some sense into the Fedora packagers, feel free
> to try. Also ask them why they use mixed case for the following new
> packages (against their own packaging guidelines). Introducing new
> incompatibilities all the time.
In most of these cases, the mixed case names were those chosen by
upstream. Packaging simply followed suit.
Now, creating a new (sane) packaging policy that mandates lower case
package names would make a lot of sense.
-- Rex
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