[Fedora-packaging] Python Virtual Provides

[Jeremy Katz]

On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 06:37 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> So, eggs seem pretty straightforward to me.  They establish what they 
> provide and what they depend on in their metadata.  But the python() 
> namespace is not so easy.  On the PackagingDraft/Python page I mention 
> that one thing we could try is to make a Provides: python(foo) for every 
> module in the site-packages directories.  This is relatively 
> straightforward to automate but misses subpackages.  The example I 
> brought up is bzr-gtk::

Aha, okay.  I think that the right thing here is to get the first level
and then we can later worry about the secondary case of subpackages.  I
mean, you could do
  Provides: python(bzrlib.plugins.gtk) 
or some-such, but I suspect that might get a bit out of hand.  And I'm
also not sure how common of a case it is to need to care about

Jeremy