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| author | Phil Christensen <philc@microsoft.com> | 2019-05-10 12:47:09 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2019-05-10 12:47:09 -0700 |
| commit | 4b834fad29ced8b12a0c4191d0db047599b9399f (patch) | |
| tree | d22a1d25ef3eafae1c7555c137b226a3086e4ff5 | |
| parent | 5f1e14ac134fd63152b7b1c2c857bf7b2fb30570 (diff) | |
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[docs] update port naming info in CONTROL docs (#6397)
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diff --git a/docs/maintainers/control-files.md b/docs/maintainers/control-files.md index dc2a255f8..a8f430836 100644 --- a/docs/maintainers/control-files.md +++ b/docs/maintainers/control-files.md @@ -30,9 +30,13 @@ Build-Depends: zlib, libpng, tiff, libxml2, jsoncpp, glew, freetype, expat, hdf5 #### Source The name of the port. -When adding new ports be aware that the name may conflict with other projects that are not a part of vcpkg. To avoid conflicts verify the name on a service like [Repology][repology]. For example `json` conflicts with too many other projects so you should add a scope to the name such as `taocpp-json` to make it unique. +When adding new ports be aware that the name may conflict with other projects that are not a part of vcpkg. For example `json` conflicts with too many other projects so you should add a scope to the name such as `taocpp-json` to make it unique. Verify there are no conflicts on a search engine as well as on other package collections. -[repology]: https://repology.org/projects/ +Package collections to check for conflicts: + ++ [Repology](https://repology.org/projects/) ++ [Debian packages](https://www.debian.org/distrib/packages) ++ [Packages search](https://pkgs.org/) #### Version The port version. |