[Mageia-dev] Python packaging policy

[Guillaume Rousse]

Le 13/12/2012 15:24, Claire REVILLET a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> Le 13/12/2012 09:00, Shlomi Fish a écrit :
>> Hi Joseph,
>>
>> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:53:04 +0800
>> Joseph Wang<joequant at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>
> [...]
>>> * I'd like to add a rule (which is followed by current packages) that
>>> the prefix "py" should
>>> generally be removed from a package name.  For example pyopencl
>>> should be
>>> called python-opencl.  This is the current convention for packages in
>>> mageia.
>> I'm OK with it either way.
> I disagree on that point: software and libraries names are choose by the
> developers.
> Who are we to change them ?
A free software distribution, whose part of the added value is overall 
consistency. Which is out of scope of individual software authors by 
definition.

And the current issue is just about the *package* name, not exactly the 
software name. Remember when 'thunderbird' was distributed as 
'mozilla-thunderbird' ?

And just to compare it with other similar practices:
- we already normalize perl version numbers, for sorting purpose
- we already force lowercase package naming
- we already modify software setup, to achieve FHS compliance
- we already modify package behaviour, to prevent automatic upgrade, for 
instance

The two latest ones seems far most invasive IMHO than just shipping 
pycups in a package called 'python-cups' rather than 'python-pycups'.

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