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Re: Need help with naming scheme in debian/control for python library

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On Tue, 01 Jul 2025 at 10:42:19 +0200, Carsten Schoenert wrote:
>Am 01.07.25 um 09:59 schrieb Aryan Karamtoth:
>...
>>So my question is should I rename the source field to “python3- 
>>packagename” too or will it cause any conflicts?

The source package ("Source:") should not be prefixed with "python3-", 
even if the binary package ("Package:") is. This is because, if there is 
a Python 4 in future, we might want to build both python3-foo and 
python4-foo binary packages from the same source package, which would 
normally be called python-foo.

If the source package name ("Source:") needs a disambiguating prefix, 
use "python-" instead of "python3-" for that.

>the common sense is to prefix the source package with "python" without 
>any version numbers.

Usually, yes. If the upstream name of the software is something that 
could easily collide with similarly-named packages outside the Python 
ecosystem (like for example "keyring", 
https://github.com/jaraco/keyring) then prefix it with "python-" (which 
is what has been done in 
https://salsa.debian.org/python-team/packages/python-keyring/-/blob/debian/master/debian/control?ref_type=heads).

But if the upstream name of the software already makes it obvious that 
it's for Python (like for example dbus-python, tap.py or pygobject) then 
there isn't necessarily any need to prefix "python-" to that as well.

If you are not sure, the safe choice is to prefix "python-".

Aryan, you would probably get clearer advice if you name the specific 
package you are working on, rather than saying "packagename".

There is some discussion of this naming convention in 
https://bugs.debian.org/791635, and I think it would make sense for the 
Python policy to say something about this (although I don't agree with 
the suggestion to require a python- prefix on *every* source package 
name for Python libraries, because something like python-dbus-python 
would be silly).

>Have a look at existing packages.

Yes, this. There are lots of good examples.

     smcv

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Re: Need help with naming scheme in debian/control for python library Carsten Schoenert <c.schoenert@t-online.de> - 2025-07-01 10:50 +0200
  Re: Need help with naming scheme in debian/control for python library Andrey Rakhmatullin <wrar@debian.org> - 2025-07-01 11:40 +0200
  Re: Need help with naming scheme in debian/control for python library Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2025-07-01 18:00 +0200

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