Package policies: Difference between revisions

Revision as of 03:39, 25 May 2019

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

All package names should be lowercase.
Development files are placed in subpackages with -dev suffix (e.g. uclibc-dev)
Documentation files (incl. man pages) are placed in subpackages with -doc suffix (e.g. expat-doc)
Lua modules (not applications) are prefixed with lua-. (e.g. lua-posix)
Perl modules (not applications) are prefixed with perl-. (e.g. perl-xml-parser)
Python 2 modules (not applications) are prefixed with py2-. (e.g. py2-libxml2)
Python 3 modules (not applications) are prefixed with py3-. (e.g. py3-libxml2)
Kernels and third party modules should be suffixed with the kernel flavor. (e.g., -grsec, -vserver).

Don't use - sign in kernel flavor name.
Specify KERNEL_FLAVOR_DEFAULT as your kernel flavor if you want boot your kernel by default.

The license identifier used is SPDX.
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.

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 == Licensing ==
+* The license identifier used is [https://spdx.org/licenses/ SPDX].
 * The license of the program should be based on the licenses approved by the [http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/license-list.html#GPLCompatibleLicenses Free Software Foundation] or [http://www.opensource.org/licenses/ OSI].
 * If you are unsure about the license, please ask in our [[IRC]] channel.
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