Python submodule naming

[John Mahowald]

On 7/21/06, Luke Macken <lmacken at redhat.com> wrote:
> I'm currently working on getting Paste{,Deploy,Script} though the review
> process, and Patrice Dumas asks a good naming question in the bug[0]:
>
>     I don't know if the name should be python-paste-deploy or
>     python-pastedeploy. The guidelines don't cover the case of python
>     submodules. If it is "This makes a package name format of python-$NAME"
>     it seems to be python-pastedeploy, but if one follow "use the name of the
>     module that you type to import it in a script" it should be
>     python-paste-deploy. The second naming convention is also consistent
>     with perl modules naming.
>
> Anyone have any insight into this ?
>
> luke
>
> [0]: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=198288#c2
>
>

FYI, Debian seems to go the second route without the second dash. I'm
inclined to go along.

http://packages.debian.org/unstable/python/python-pastescript

John