Packaging a Fork of a Python Library (Suds)

[Scott Talbert]

Hi all,

Suds [1], a Python Library for using SOAP web services (Fedora package: 
python-suds), has been unmaintained for about 3 years or so.  There is a 
relatively active fork, suds-jurko [2], that has, among other things, 
Python 3 support.  Thus, I would like to package suds-jurko for Fedora.

Would it be better to:

A) Package suds-jurko as a new package (and then dependent packages could 
move over to use suds-jurko at their leisure).  If this is the recommended 
approach, is there a recommended mechanism for having multiple python 
modules with the same name?  Rename the fork's module to 'suds-jurko' and 
packages that wanted to use the fork would have to be updated to import 
the alternative module name?

or

B) Replace python-suds with the jurko fork and force all dependent 
packages to move over at the same time.  If this is the recommended 
approach, is this big enough to qualify as a system-wide change?  There 
are about a dozen dependent packages, according to repoquery.

Thanks,
Scott

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/suds/
[2] https://bitbucket.org/jurko/suds