[Fedora-packaging] Python- prefix must for all python module?

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Sep 19, 2013 10:05 PM, "Praveen Kumar" <kumarpraveen.nitdgp at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I just came across pytz [0] package and looks like it's a python
> module/library and still doesn't start with python- prefix. Is it as
> expected or we can patch it with as naming conventions? I also went
> through python packaging guideline [1] and it shows that is must for
> python3 version of executable.  Any points?
>
> [0] https://apps.fedoraproject.org/packages/pytz
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Naming

I'm on my phone right now and can't easily look this up but I believe the
python- prefix is expected of packages *but* this is a case where
guidelines have been updated.  So done packages exist which were reviewed
and entered the collection before the prefix was made mandatory.  In many
cases packages that followed old guidelines are grandfathered in and slowly
update to new guidelines as the packages are naturally updated.

For a package changing name, a package re-review is needed. So this needs
to have a maintainer(s) who have the time to go through the package rename
process to fix it up.

-Toshio
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