Python package naming guidelines

[Kyle VanderBeek]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 09:02:38AM -0700, Timothy Selivanow wrote:
> So, under that logic, I should have named pysvn python-pysvn?  That
> seems a bit redundant to me, but I'm willing to play along if that is
> the consensus.  From now on, I'll make an effort to name things that
> way, unless I hear a better reason not to (name space pollution,
> lib-{package} naming in other distros, other historical reason that I'm
> not aware of or privy to...).

I agree that python-pysvn seems redundant, but that is the fault of the
project creators, and is probably not up to packagers to correct. 
Naming a python package with "py" in the name is redundant itself.  But,
since you're going to have to "import pysvn", you might was well be
installing python-pysvn.

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