On 13/09/17 04:39 +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
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.
I'll change it to boost-python2 instead, which is what should have
been done.
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