[Mageia-dev] Python packaging policy

Thu Dec 13 09:00:07 CET 2012

Hi Joseph,
+
+On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:53:04 +0800
+Joseph Wang <joequant at gmail.com> wrote:
+
+> Looking over this page:
+> 
+> https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Python_policy
+> 
+> * python-pyp2rpm is undergoing review right now.  Once it's in
+> cauldron, I'd like to
+> point to that package as something that packagers you should use to
+> get a first draft
+> of a spec file,  I've been working with the Fedora people so that it
+> will do both fedora
+> and mageia naming conventions.
+> 
+
+Sounds good. Does it support building for both Python 2.x and Python 3.x (in
+case both are supported)?
+
+> * I'd like to add a rule (which is followed by current packages) that
+> the prefix "py" should
+> generally be removed from a package name.  For example pyopencl should be
+> called python-opencl.  This is the current convention for packages in mageia.
+
+I'm OK with it either way.
+
+> 
+> * Also for grouping.  I'd like to add a rule that Development/Python
+> is intended for packages
+> which provide general development libraries for python, and if the
+> library fits into an obvious
+> other category (i.e. python routines for cosmology calculations) those
+> should go into the
+> other category.
+
+Sounds good.
+
+Regards,
+
+	Shlomi Fish
+
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+<mst> I find it’s usually safe to assume that whatever shlomif’s doing, there
+isn’t a good reason for it.
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