Debian Bug report logs - #575357
php5-adodb: Seems to be a duplicate package of libphp-adodb

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: php5-adodb: Seems to be a duplicate package of libphp-adodb

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 08:13:41 +0100

Package: php5-adodb
Severity: wishlist

Hi.

When looking at packages libphp-adodb and php5-adodb, one thinks there's a duplicate packaging.

It is quite difficult to understand at first sight, that the latter is an optimization add-on of the former (if I understand correctly).

Maybe the naming of the packages could be a way to reflect this like -plugins do sometimes for some apps.

Something like libphp-adodb-optimizations maybe ?

Hope this helps,

Best regards.


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Message #10 received at 575357@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>

To: Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu>, 575357@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: [php-maint] Bug#575357: php5-adodb: Seems to be a duplicate package of libphp-adodb

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 14:05:24 -0600

On 25 March 2010 01:13, Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu> wrote:
> When looking at packages libphp-adodb and php5-adodb, one thinks there's a duplicate packaging.
>
> It is quite difficult to understand at first sight, that the latter is an optimization add-on of the former (if I understand correctly).

How hard is it to understand the difference right from the summary?

$ search adodb
libphp-adodb - The ADOdb database abstraction layer for PHP
php5-adodb - *Extension optimising* _the ADOdb database abstraction library_
python-adodb - A database abstraction library for python

I don't see how else it could be made any clearer, the whole
description only talks about optimising, replacing and even mentions
that ADOdb automatically picks it up.
There's an Enhances too.

> Maybe the naming of the packages could be a way to reflect this like -plugins do sometimes for some apps.
>
> Something like libphp-adodb-optimizations maybe ?
>

No, libphp-* should only be used for libraries _written in php_,
extensions should use phpX-*

Cheers,
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Message #15 received at 575357-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Ondřej Surý <ondrej@debian.org>

To: Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org>, 575357-done@bugs.debian.org

Cc: Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu>

Subject: Re: [php-maint] Bug#575357: Bug#575357: php5-adodb: Seems to be a duplicate package of libphp-adodb

Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:23:56 +0100

On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 21:05, Raphael Geissert <geissert@debian.org> wrote:
> On 25 March 2010 01:13, Olivier Berger <olivier.berger@it-sudparis.eu> wrote:
>> When looking at packages libphp-adodb and php5-adodb, one thinks there's a duplicate packaging.
>>
>> It is quite difficult to understand at first sight, that the latter is an optimization add-on of the former (if I understand correctly).
>
> How hard is it to understand the difference right from the summary?

I think that short and long descriptions are pretty clear. I'm closing
this bug, since there is nothing for us to fix. You cannot expect that
you will know functionality of the package just from it's name.

Ondrej
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