On Wed, 2016-12-07 at 20:51 +0100, Jakub Jedelsky wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 07, 2016 at 09:09:48AM -0800, Adam Williamson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2016-12-07 at 16:26 +0100, Vít Ondruch wrote:
> > > Generally it is bad idea to differ from the name platform package
> > > manager uses.
> >
> > The packages *must* by policy Provide python2-vertica-python and
> > python3-vertica-python respectively, but they don't absolutely have to
> > be named that way. The guidelines - by my reading - absolutely require
> > that the source package name start with 'python-' and the binary
> > package names start with 'python2-' and 'python3-' , but they leave a
> > bit of flexibility for what comes after the -. They only say:
> >
> > "The package name should reflect the upstream name of the Python
> > module, and should generally take into account the name of the module
> > used when importing it in Python scripts."
> >
> > 'reflect the upstream name' is not as strict as 'be identical to the
> > upstream name'. Dropping the repetition of 'python' seems to fit within
> > the guidelines.
> >
> > However, 'vertica-python' and 'vertica-python3' are right out, they are
> > entirely against the guidelines and those names should not be used. If
> > this package is under review, the reviewer must reject those names.
>
> Ok, that makes sense to me. 'vertica-python' already exist for a few
> years - as I mentioned earlier today, it somehow pass guidelines
> earlier.
The guidelines do note that the rules used to be more flexible. I think
old packages are grandfathered in the sense that no-one's going to
threaten to remove your package from the distro if it's not renamed,
but it *would* be good to rename the binary packages at least to match
the current guidelines (but make sure they continue to Provides: the
old names, of course).
> So I'll try to switch it to 'python{2,3}-vertica-python' to be safe
> (as Vit mentioned) and to respect guidelines at all.
I do think python2-vertica / python3-vertica would be OK, but
matching the module name exactly is certainly the safe choice.
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