[Mageia-dev] Python packaging policy

Thu Dec 13 19:21:58 CET 2012

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 ?
+> 
+> Adding "python-" at the beginning of the package name for our own
+> organization is one thing, changing the name is another.
+> 
+> And our policy only talk about upstream names containing the complete
+> word "python", not just "py".
+> 
+> Claire
+> 
+A package name is not a software name... and we have already some
+packages whose the name is not the same as in other distributions for
+reasons that belong to our and their organisation :
+look at JACK (Jack Audio Connection Kit) for instance
+
+- opensuse has a rpm simply called jack
+
+- Mandriva and Mageia need to name it jackit (because an other software,
+to rip cd, was already provided in a rpm called jack)
+
+- Debian and Ubuntu name their deb jackd or jackd1 (Debian too already
+used the name jack for the package installing the same cd ripper as
+Mandrake)
+
+- fedora and slackware call the rpm jack-audio-connection-kit (with
+lowercase...)
+
+Those distibutions have their coherency  their needs : it's difficult to
+standardise the packages names for all the distributions because these
+names have an historical origin !
+
+You can complain ... but that is how it is...
+
+For a distribution the need is coherence for its own packagers
+
+
+
+My two drachmes
+
+
+Philippe
+
+
+