Subject: bug#34835: iproute in %base-packages but no matching package

From: mikadoZero <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2019 19:37:12 -0400

Leo Famulari writes:
> The package is named 'iproute2' but the Scheme variable, which is what
> %base-packages is a list of, is named 'iproute'.

Thank you for the clarification.

Is it common for the Scheme variable to be different from the package
name?  What benefit is there to it being different compared to it being
the same?