[Fedora-packaging] Inconsistencies in Python package naming

[Michael Schwendt]

On Thu, 28 Mar 2013 14:47:46 +0100, Thomas Spura wrote:

> > Bugzilla "component" names are the src.rpm %{name}s. You would first
> > need to change that, so a pygtk2.src.rpm is not added to Bugzilla as
> > "pygtk2" but with the names of (all?) its binary rpm(s) it builds.
> 
> What I meant is, that we have e.g.:
> python2-pygtk.src.rpm
> python3-pygtk.src.rpm
> pypy-pygtk.src.rpm

Hard to comment on, because that's not what packages do so far. It's more
normal that a single src.rpm (in Fedora package git) builds multiple
packages from a single source tarball. If a previously Python 2 based
project adds compatibility for Python 3, you would reuse the tarball and
not start a new src.rpm with a different name. Here, building for a newer
Python version would require a new src.rpm -- it's probably a better idea
to create front-ends for bugzilla which know about the mapping from binary
rpms to source rpms.

The low-level details about RPM macros and virtual provides don't interest
me yet, btw.

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