[Fedora-packaging] Proposal: naming convention for Python 3 packages and subpackages

[Tim Lauridsen]

On 10/30/2009 09:57 AM, Tim Lauridsen wrote:
> On 10/30/2009 01:15 AM, David Malcolm wrote:
>> On Thu, 2009-10-29 at 18:42 -0400, John Dennis wrote:
>>> On 10/29/2009 06:27 PM, David Malcolm wrote:
>>>
>>>> I rather like the idea of standardizing on a "python3-" prefix for
>>>> _all_
>>>> Python 3 module packages and subpackages, even if this leads to
>>>> inconsistencies with their counterparts in the python 2 stack. It would
>>>> make the "threeness" of the packages stand out more.
>>>>
>>>> Thoughts?
>>>
>
> for the
>
> python-<package> -> python3-<package>
> py<package> -> python3-py<package> (I think we should keep the py to
> make it easier to locate stuff pygpgme)
> <package>-python -> python3-<package>
>
> Seem good to me.
>
> But there is a lot of packages installing stuff into
> /usr/lib/pythonX-Y/site-packages there don't fit 3 cases.
>
> Ex. yum
>
> It is an application, but also an python API used by other packages, how
> do we handle there cases.
>
> I have attacted the the sorted output from
>
> repoquery -f '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/*'
>
> Tim
>

I have added a ordered file categorizing the packages in

Tim
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