[Mageia-dev] [packages-commits] [261308] Imported from Fedora RawHide

Thierry Vignaud thierry.vignaud at gmail.com
Wed Jun 20 10:15:14 CEST 2012


On 18 June 2012 16:40, Colin Guthrie <mageia at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:
>>>> This package shouldn't have been imported. It was already present as
>>>> "muparser".
>>>>
>>> I guess/hope it's imported like this because muparser 1.34 broke scidavis &
>>> qwplot so we stick to 1.32
>>
>> If it was reimported for this reason, then muparser / muParser names are
>> confusing. If muparser 1.32 should be kept for some reason in parrallel
>> with newer versions, I think the package should be renamed to muparser1.32
>> instead.
>
> Yup +1 here. muParser is against our packaging guidelines for package
> names anyway.

To prevent this to happen again & again, it would be nice if mgarepo import
would refuse to import such packages with upcase letters...


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