[Fedora-packaging] Packaging/NamingGuidelines python modules naming

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Thu Sep 6 17:33:16 UTC 2007


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Ville Skyttä wrote:
> On Thursday 06 September 2007, Tom "spot" Callaway wrote:
>> On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 16:32 +0200, Till Maas wrote:
>>> Aloas,
>>>
>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#head-8756a3bce65
>>> 2c376d7ba3908461b638784b6952d
>>>
>>> states:
>>> | There is an exception to this rule. If the upstream source has "py"
>>> | (or "Py") in its name, you can use that name for the package.
>>>
>>> Maybe there should be another exception when upstream includes python it
>>> its name, e.g. fuse-python[1]. Should this be packaged as python-fuse or
>>> can it stay with upstream's name fuse-python? Should it provide
>>> python-fuse in case it stays with its upstream name?
>> Does fuse-python have "py" in its name? If so, you can use that name for
>> the package. ;)
> 
> I would personally call it python-fuse anyway for consistency, and perhaps 
> add "Provides: fuse-python = VR", but maybe that's just me.
> 
+1

In fact, I remember discussing removing the "py in the name" exception
at one of the meetings.  Might not have come to a vote, though.

- -Toshio
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