On 7 December 2016 at 13:07, Jakub Jedelsky <jakub.jedelsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 11:48:55AM +0100, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 10:48 AM, James Hogarth <james.hogarth@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > On 7 December 2016 at 09:39, Jakub Jedelsky <jakub.jedelsky@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >> Hi there,
>> >>
>> >> I'm maintainer of vertica-python package and want to add support for
>> >> python3, but I'm a little bit lost in naming.
>> >>
>> >> I named package as a upstream 'vertica-python', because (if I remember
>> >> correctly) naming guidelines told, that if upstream has 'python' in
>> >> the name it should stay there (can't found the source now). But how
>> >> should I name python3 package? Should it be 'python3-vertica-python'
>> >> od 'vertica-python3'?
>> >>
>> >> Or should I rename package to python{3,2}-vertica and obsolete
>> >> vertica-python?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > Well the name in setup.py is vertica-python and it installs as
>> > vertica_python and the pip install is that as well.
>> >
>> > So according to the guidelines I'd expect it to by
>> > python2-vertica-python and python3-vertica-python even if it sounds a
>> > little awkward, best way to handle anything that might end up
>> > depending on it etc
>> IMO this is worst thing. I think having pythonX-vertica is better.
>
> I just sniffed around repos and found just one package with a weird
> name - it's python3-python-etcd. On the other hand I found a few, which
> are in style <name>-python3, e.g. abrt-python3, libvirt-python3. So it
> looks, that this naming should be quite good.
>
Those two examples are probably wrong:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Naming?rd=Packaging:NamingGuidelines
Also you should read:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python
according to that python{2,3}-vertica-python ought to be correct
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