[Fedora-packaging] Re: Python package naming, "py"-exception only for source tarballs?

[Nicolas Mailhot]

Le dimanche 02 août 2009 à 08:54 -0500, Rex Dieter a écrit :
> Till Maas wrote:
> 
> > Can the python exception please also allow to consider ther project
> > name?
> > [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=514509
> > [1] http://code.google.com/p/pyhunspell/
> 
> Seems clear to me that this is a worthy case for the py-exception.  It's the 
> project name that's important, not the tarball name, imo.
> 
> That said, upstream having project name != tarball name seems more than a 
> wee bit silly.

It is very common. Project name == tarball name is really only used as a
conventions in the C FLOSS community and a few sister ones. That's why
the only rpm macro which is pretty much mandatory to learn for a
packager is %setup.

-- 
Nicolas Mailhot
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