Re: File collision advice

[Jerry James]

On Tue, Jan 4, 2022 at 11:59 PM Elliott Sales de Andrade
<quantum.analyst(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>  I think these packages are wrong upstream. The `sphinxcontrib`
>  directory is provided by python3-sphinx, and it specifically doesn't
>  have `__init__.py` there. Those extensions should not be adding one,
>  so as to keep the implicit namespace package nature of that directory:
>
> https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/packaging-namespace-package...
>
>  By the contents of the files, it appears they are trying to force it
>  to be a pkg_resources-style namespace package:
>
> https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/packaging-namespace-package...
>
>  But since Sphinx didn't do that in the first place, there's no
>  guarantee that other packages will contain `__init__.py` (and indeed
>  most do not). 
Thank you, Elliott.  That's good information.  I will talk to the
respective upstreams about this.

Regards,
-- 
Jerry James
http://www.jamezone.org/