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Normalize package names

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
devtools, tooling

Research direction

Start by reading issue #5 and its linked comment, then inspect the repository's existing package-name handling entry points. Identify how versioned and development-suffix package names are currently represented before deciding how normalization should work. Done should include agreed handling for Ubuntu package cases and the llvm/gcc subpackage corner cases.

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Description

enhancement

After looking at normalizing Linux shared library (.so) file names in #5 and looking at file names/package names for a bunch of stuff in Ubuntu package, there were a number of cases where package names contain a version number or dev suffix: https://github.com/LLNL/dapper/issues/5#issuecomment-2558282852

Some functions should be written to extract the version number from the package names in these cases and normalize them in some way to a name that doesn't contain version identifiers. This could involve mapping them to their source package name, though there are corner cases such as llvm/gcc which contain "subpackages" that would be better described as "libc", "libstdc++", or "clang" rather than the source package name (which might not even be llvm: it could be llvm-defaults or llvm-runtime).

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Python
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Forks
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