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* [PR PATCH] Manual.md: require package names to be lowercase
@ 2020-10-15 10:27 Piraty
  2020-10-15 17:15 ` the-maldridge
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From: Piraty @ 2020-10-15 10:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
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There is a new pull request by Piraty against master on the void-packages repository

https://github.com/Piraty/void-packages manual-lowercase-naming
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/25633

Manual.md: require package names to be lowercase
@void-linux/pkg-committers 

A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/25633.patch is attached

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From f20e7996b83466ad21ad49fbf3d61316eb658349 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Piraty <piraty1@inbox.ru>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:25:46 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Manual.md: require package names to be lowercase

---
 Manual.md | 9 +++------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Manual.md b/Manual.md
index 4af3a7b78d9..784cfdfb734 100644
--- a/Manual.md
+++ b/Manual.md
@@ -243,13 +243,10 @@ Example: gimp-python, irssi-perl
 #### Programs
 
 Programs put executables under /usr/bin (or in very special cases in other
-.../bin directories)
+.../bin directories).
 
-For those packages the upstream packages name should be used. Remember that
-in contrast to many other distributions, void doesn't lowercase package names.
-As a rule of thumb, if the tar.gz of a package contains uppercase letter, then
-the package name should contain them too; if it doesn't, the package name
-is lowercase.
+For those packages either the upstream package's name or (in rare cases) the
+main binary's name should be used. Void only accepts lowercase package names.
 
 Programs can be split into program packages and library packages. The program
 package should be named as described above. The library package should be

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