On Tue, Sep 12, 2017 at 11:54:24PM +0100, Jonathan Wakely wrote: > On 12/09/17 18:41 -0400, Scott Talbert wrote: > >On Tue, 12 Sep 2017, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > > >>>Was this package rename discussed anywhere? > >>> > >>>I don't think it makes any sense. It's not a python package, as the > >>>name python2-boost would suggest. > >> > >>Hi, > >> > >>yes, it was discussed on fedora-devel@ and python@ for a few weeks. > >>An announcement was sent to fedora-announce@. > >> > >>>It installs a shared library, libboost_python2.so, which is a library > >>>of C++ symbols that implement the Boost.Python C++ library. > >>> > >>>Why is "python2-boost" a better name for this than "boost-python2"? > >>That's what the packaging guidelines require for python packages. > > > >But he's trying to point out that this *isn't* a python library package. > > Exactly. OK, I see now. In this case it's reasonable to revert. Make sure you add Obsoletes for the python2- name so upgrades happen properly. > >Of course, I understand the other side of the coin - this was done > >by your script which made some assumptions about which packages > >are python packages, so it's understandable that there were some > >false positives. > > Sure, that's understandable. I'll revert the change then. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
