[Mageia-dev] Python packaging policy

Thu Dec 13 15:43:51 CET 2012

Le 13/12/2012 15:24, Claire REVILLET a écrit :
+> Hi,
+>
+> Le 13/12/2012 09:00, Shlomi Fish a écrit :
+>> Hi Joseph,
+>>
+>> On Thu, 13 Dec 2012 14:53:04 +0800
+>> Joseph Wang<joequant at gmail.com>  wrote:
+>>
+> [...]
+>>> * 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.
+> I disagree on that point: software and libraries names are choose by the
+> developers.
+> Who are we to change them ?
+A free software distribution, whose part of the added value is overall 
+consistency. Which is out of scope of individual software authors by 
+definition.
+
+And the current issue is just about the *package* name, not exactly the 
+software name. Remember when 'thunderbird' was distributed as 
+'mozilla-thunderbird' ?
+
+And just to compare it with other similar practices:
+- we already normalize perl version numbers, for sorting purpose
+- we already force lowercase package naming
+- we already modify software setup, to achieve FHS compliance
+- we already modify package behaviour, to prevent automatic upgrade, for 
+instance
+
+The two latest ones seems far most invasive IMHO than just shipping 
+pycups in a package called 'python-cups' rather than 'python-pycups'.
+
+-- 
+BOFH excuse #32:
+
+techtonic stress
+