Package policies

Alpine Linux Package Policies

This document describes 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 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)

Package versions

• Package versions are similar to gentoo.