[Fedora-packaging] What is the upstream name of the python module refer to?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Mon Sep 13 13:49:34 UTC 2010


On 09/12/2010 01:41 AM, Chen Lei wrote:

> Refer to the fedora naming guideline, we should name a python module
> as python-$NAME which the $NAME indicates the upstream name of the
> python modules. I don't know what the upstream name exactly refer to -
> the tarball name,

tarball name usually.  (It'd be a bit odd for a project producing
software 'foo' to call the tarball 'bar-baz.tar.gz').

-- Rex


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