[Fedora-packaging] Inconsistencies in Python package naming

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Thu Mar 28 14:40:53 UTC 2013


On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 08:37:46AM -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> >>>>> "BK" == Bohuslav Kabrda <bkabrda at redhat.com> writes:
> 
> BK> Let's make it mandatory for all the Python package names to be
> BK> prefixed with python-/python3-.
> 
> You won't get any argument from me; I've long thought that the "py"
> naming exception is bollocks and that python deserves no special
> treatment here.  Do note, however, that even if we changed the
> guidelines, this would have no effect on existing packages because we
> wouldn't dream of requiring any sort of renaming.
> 
+1

-Toshio
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