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)
Kernels and 3rdparty modules should be suffixed with the kernel flavor. (i.e -grsec or -vserver)