Path: csiph.com!news.freedyn.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Thomas Goirand Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Python package providing both modules and an app Date: Tue, 05 Jul 2016 10:50:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Tue Jul 5 08:41:02 2016 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_NONE=-0.0001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -5 Organization: Debian User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Icedove/45.1.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/13976 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/bb5139b7-b26b-c230-35b8-ef15d4607396@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 20 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2016 10:40:45 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <20160621211338.GC2172@hle.local> <8537o6xbf6.fsf@benfinney.id.au> <20160622195154.GA2416@hle.local> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:8641 On 06/22/2016 09:51 PM, Hugo Lefeuvre wrote: > Hi Ben, > >>> The package is originally requested as a Python module[2] and it seems >>> clear to me that the whole thing is only useful as a library >> >> I don't understand this statement. If it is *only* useful as a library, >> why install the command-line entry point? > > Indeed, I though about that, but python-slugify has been developed as an > application[0] so I think it's rather a bad idea to completely ignore the > entry point, even if it's not really useful. I think upstream would disagree, > too. In my opinion, better build a third package, even if it won't be used > a lot. The 3rd package is mandatory if your package needs to store config files. Cheers, Thomas