Re: converters/libiconv-1.16

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

Am 11.10.2019 um 23:24 schrieb Greg Troxel:
>> Am 11.10.2019 um 05:42 schrieb Frédéric Fauberteau:
>>> ERROR: buildlink3.mk:3: Package name mismatch between "iconv" in this
>>> file and "libiconv" from Makefile:3.
>
> could be done, but I think the cure is worse than the disease.   Having
> a package iconv when the distfile is libiconv, and it provides a library
> with the function iconv, is not really wrong.  And changing names of
> packages causes pain.  I would prefer to leave things as they are.

I just released pkglint 19.3.1 which does not report this particular
difference in names as a bug. A leading "lib" is now allowed, as well as
a trailing number, such as in emacs22. Other name mismatches are still
flagged as errors.