[Fedora-packaging] Python submodule naming

Tom 'spot' Callaway tcallawa at redhat.com
Fri Aug 18 20:10:27 UTC 2006


On Fri, 2006-08-18 at 12:36 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Luke Macken is working on a few python packages for infrastructure and
> has run across an unanticipated naming issue with python-pastedeploy and
> python-pastescript[1]_.
> 
> Our present naming guidelines [2]_ say to use the name of the python
> module when it is imported.  The question is how does this map to
> submodules?  In this case:
> 
>   import paste.deploy
>   import paste.script
> 
> This could reasonably be named python-pastedeploy or
> python-paste-deploy.  Do we want to specify that submodules be named one
> or the other or leave it up to the packager?
> 
> For what it's worth, Debian has python-pastedeploy but also
> python-twisted-conch so they seem to leave it to the packager ATM.

Up to developer's discretion, IMHO. Look at what upstream calls it.

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