[Mageia-dev] Python packaging policy

[Shlomi Fish]

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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