On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Fernando Lopez-Lezcano wrote:
On Tue, 2010-07-20 at 10:04 -0400, Orcan Ogetbil wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:30 AM, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> > question is why the package name is jack-audio-connection-kit? As far
> > as I know the package name should be derived from the main tarball
> > name.
> >
>
> I thought about doing that once. Jack1's and jack2's source codes are
> distributed on the same website [1], We know that JACK stands for
> Jack-Audio-Connection-Kit. So there shouldn't be any confusion.
>
"jack-audio-connection-kit" is the official name of the project and it
has been the suggested name for packages.
Yes. Therefore I think we are safe from the guidelines' point of view:
"When naming a package, the name should match the upstream tarball or
project name from which this software came."
from
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageNamingGuidelines#General_Naming
Orcan