Re: [Dragora-bug] Determining the name of a package

[Mateus Pinto Rodrigues]

On Sun, 21 Jun 2015 01:04:06 +0200
Lucas Sköldqvist <address@hidden> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I wonder if there will be any rules or if there are any rules for
> determining the name of a package.  A simple rule would be that the
> name of a package is everything in front of the first dash;
> 
>   jwm-2.3.0-x86_64-1.tlz
> 
> would give the package name "jwm".  But some packages contain a dash
> in the "name" already;
> 
>   claws-mail-3.11.1-x86_64-1.tlz
> 
> and would give the name "claws".
> 
> Are there any rules or does anyone have a proposal?
> 

I remember using a regex in lua to separate the package name, but
basically everything before a number, sometimes the package name has a
number in itself, but the regex took care of it.

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