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Hi everybody,
I have a question about the name of a new package and would like
everyone's opinion on this issue, because in our wiki (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/PythonNamingDependingOnImplementation) practically forces whatever is written in Python to have name: python-% {name}, but I believe this is very bad for our users, if the package is a tool, not a python module the user would like to use this package:
# Yum install python-% {name} $ ./python-% {Name}-u xxx-p xxx-f file1.txt file2.txt
This is not the real purpose of the package, which aims to be a
tool for use by our users. There are also packages in Fedora are tools that are written in Python and is not named python-% {name}, eg fpaste (https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/fpaste/sources/spec). I created this ticket and transmit it to everyone to view and opine:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=980318
Thank you.
Marcelo Barbosa Fedora Project Packager Fedora Project Ambassador firemanxbr@fedoraproject.org http://planet.fedoraproject.org
Hi, there is a note in the naming guidelines regarding this [1]:
If a new package is considered an "addon" package that enhances or adds a new functionality to an existing Fedora package without being useful on its own, its name should reflect this fact.
Therefore if you don't consider your package to be an addon (in this case, addon would be a Python library), but an "application", you should name it without the "python-" prefix. The way you chose to name your application seems perfectly fine to me.