Bug 68091 - Package file names are inconsistently capitalized.
Summary: Package file names are inconsistently capitalized.
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: distribution
Version: 8.0
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Bill Nottingham
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2002-07-06 07:30 UTC by Mike MacCana
Modified: 2014-03-17 02:28 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2005-03-01 20:47:36 UTC
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Description Mike MacCana 2002-07-06 07:30:58 UTC
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User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Konqueror/3; Linux)

Description of problem:
As far as I can see, there seems to be no particular set of rules for determing whether a package name is captialized. Compare:

* GConf and gconf-editor
* mysql and mysql-server with MySQL-Python and MyODBC.
* python, pygtk2, and PyQt and PyXML
* ORBit and orbit-python
* SDL and smpeg.
* xinitrc and XFree86
* Xaw3d and xawtv. 
* gimp and ImageMagick

Administrators therefore cannot reliably predict the name of a given package file without using a specific tool, and may often assume that a particular program is not supplied with Red Hat Linux because it does not share the same name as similar programs, or the program to when it is a plugin, etc.

kWnn
or cWnn, ElectrixFence, FreeWnn and GuppiMagicPoint and MADEDEV

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How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
A test case:
1.Install python.
2.Try and guess the name of the package that provides pyqt (knowing that most packages that come with Red Hat Linux are in lowercase)
	

Actual Results:  The package is called capital P, lowercase y, capital Q, lowercase t

Expected Results:  It should have been named in the same was that the `python' package was. 

Additional info:

Consistently naming packages doesn't fix a major problem, but it will mean one less task for administrators when installing packages on their Red hat Linux systems.

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2005-03-01 20:47:36 UTC
There are currently package naming guidelines in Fedora Extras:

http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras

This can also be used for newer packages. However, I think renaming old packages
isn't really worth the migration effort.


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