netbsd-bugs: Re: pkg/20025: gnome-python package's registration is invalid

Subject: Re: pkg/20025: gnome-python package's registration is invalid
To: None <tero.kauppinen@nomadiclab.com>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/25/2003 16:49:26

In article <200301240838.h0O8cDP19537@n44.nomadiclab.com>,
	tero@n44.nomadiclab.com (Tero Kauppinen) writes:
> 
> gnome-python package uses an invalid registration name, which causes
> lintpkgsrc not to recognize the package:
> 
> Unknown package: 'py22-gnome' version 1.4.0nb3
> 
>>How-To-Repeat:
> Instal gnome-python and run 'lintpkgsrc -i'.
>>Fix:
> Stop using version dependent naming and use 'gnome-python' instead.

Wouldn't that break many binary packages? Why do you suppose it was
done in the first place?

Frederick