From f20e7996b83466ad21ad49fbf3d61316eb658349 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Piraty 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