Package policies

From Alpine Linux

The Alpine Linux Package Policies describe some of the policies when creating packages.

Package Names

• All package names should be lowercase.
• Development files are placed in subpackages with -dev suffix (i.e uclibc-dev)
• Documentation files (incl. man pages) are placed in subpackages with -doc suffix (i.e expat-doc)
• Lua modules (not applications) are prefixed with lua-. (i.e lua-posix)
• Perl modules (not applications) are prefixed with perl-. (i.e perl-xml-parser)
• Python modules (not applications) are prefixed with py-. (i.e py-libxml2)
• Kernels and 3rdparty modules should be suffixed with the kernel flavor. (i.e -grsec or -vserver)

Package versions

• Package versions are similar to gentoo.

Licensing

• The license of the program should be based on the licenses approved by the Free Software Foundation or OSI.
• If you are unsure about the license, please ask in our IRC channel.