[Slackbuilds-users] Renaming ltm to be libtommath

Andrzej Telszewski atelszewski at gmail.com
Mon Jan 30 16:36:12 UTC 2017


On 30/01/17 17:26, Willy Sudiarto Raharjo wrote:
>> I'm about to submit SlackBuild for LibTomCrypt [http://www.libtom.net/].
>>
>> Although the source code tarball is named "crypt", I'm going to name the
>> SlackBuild and resulting package "libtomcrypt".
>>
>> At that point I would like to ask if it would make sense to rename the
>> "ltm" library (already maintained by B. Watson) to be "libtommath"?
>>
>> It's kinda cosmetic change, but in my opinion that name would be more
>> relevant.
>>
>> I found only one package, convertlit, that currently depends on ltm, so
>> the change should be fairly non-invasive.
>>
>> Of course, libtomcrypt is going to depend on ltm/libtommath too ;-)
>
> renaming a package is not that simple as it would need to be removed
> from the DB and added as a new one + changing packages that depends on it.
>
> For that same reason i keep my letsencrypt as it is even though upstream
> have renamed the project to certbot.
>

When it comes to dependent packages, I see only one (convertlit).
Anyways, if it's too much work, then of course no.

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Best regards,
Andrzej Telszewski


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