On 4/4/20 7:32 PM, Ricardo Band wrote: > Ahoi, > > I maintain a tool called virtualfish [1] on the AUR. It is writte in > python and one dependency of it is called xdg [2]. It is not packaged > in archlinux so I would just do that on the AUR. Problem is there > already is a package in archlinux extra which is called python-xdg [3]. > That package includes a python library called pyxdg [4] which does > nearly the same as xdg but is still a different library. > > In my opinion the arch packages python-xdg and python2-xdg have an > incorrect name. They should be called python-pyxdg so the xdg module > could be packaged under python-xdg. > > The naming schema with the python-py prefix looks odd but isn't new. It > is already used in the pyserial [5] package. > > How do we solve this problem? Also keep in mind that since both provide 'import xdg', renaming the package wouldn't let you install both of them. Also when renaming a repository package, we must add provides/conflicts/replaces which means a new python-xdg package would never be found from the AUR, and if manually installed, would prompt to replace it with the repo package on every singe pacman -Syu. Fragmentation is fun. -- Eli Schwartz Bug Wrangler and Trusted User
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