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doc: Augment "Package Naming". 

* doc/guix.texi (Package Naming): Mention underscores, and give SDL_net
  as an example.
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@ -2812,12 +2812,15 @@ the string in the @code{name} field of a package definition. This name
is used by package management commands such as
@command{guix package} and @command{guix build}.
Both are usually the same and correspond to the lowercase conversion of the
project name chosen upstream. For instance, the GNUnet project is packaged
as @code{gnunet}. We do not add @code{lib} prefixes for library packages,
unless these are already part of the official project name. But see
@pxref{Python Modules} and @ref{Perl Modules} for special rules concerning
modules for the Python and Perl languages.
Both are usually the same and correspond to the lowercase conversion of
the project name chosen upstream, with underscores replaced with
hyphens. For instance, GNUnet is available as @code{gnunet}, and
SDL_net as @code{sdl-net}.
We do not add @code{lib} prefixes for library packages, unless these are
already part of the official project name. But see @pxref{Python
Modules} and @ref{Perl Modules} for special rules concerning modules for
the Python and Perl languages.
@node Version Numbers