diveintopython/book-prefix (was: Re: rawhide report: 20080111 changes)

Marc Wiriadisastra marc at mwiriadi.id.au
Tue Jan 15 22:02:04 UTC 2008


On Mon, 2008-01-14 at 19:44 +0100, Thorsten Leemhuis wrote:
> On 14.01.2008 14:52, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Nils Philippsen wrote:
> >> On Fri, 2008-01-11 at 12:55 -0500, Build System wrote:
> >>> New package diveintopython
> >>> 	Dive into Python - a python book
> >> Have we relaxed our "code vs. content" policy lately? While I'm not
> >> personally against having this package in, I don't think it falls under
> >> the "Package documentation or help files" exception in
> >> Packaging/Guidelines, or does it?
> > There was a small discussion about this in this list and the general 
> > consensus seemed to be that such documentation is allowed.
> 
> I think it's fine to ship it. But one thing looks odd to me: we use a
> lot of prefixes for packages in our repo already (fuse-, perl-, or
> python- are just some examples).

I actually posted to the list about documentation awhile ago the thread
didn't grow legs.

I then obviously got it approved to go through.... I would think the
description or summary. A python book.


Cheers,

Marc




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