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Re: Package name for github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio

From Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au>
Newsgroups linux.debian.maint.python
Subject Re: Package name for github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio
Date 2016-08-03 01:30 +0200
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Luke Yeager <luke.yeager@gmail.com> writes:

> The policy manual says the package name should be "python-socketio"
> since I want to create a python2 package that provides the "socketio"
> module.
>
> But that name is already taken by this project:
> https://github.com/abourget/gevent-socketio

Yes, this is a problem with the current Debian Python policy: it assumes
distribution authors will not collide on package names.

I don't have an answer, though I will point out that whatever the
solution is, it will be incompatible with the current Debian Python
policy for at least one of those packages.

We need to discuss the problem and find a general solution that accepts
the reality that upstream authors sometimes don't check whether the
Python package name is already taken.

-- 
 \        “I was once walking through the forest alone and a tree fell |
  `\       right in front of me, and I didn't hear it.” —Steven Wright |
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Ben Finney

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Package name for github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio Luke Yeager <luke.yeager@gmail.com> - 2016-08-03 01:00 +0200
  Re: Package name for github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio Ben Finney <ben+debian@benfinney.id.au> - 2016-08-03 01:30 +0200
    Re: Package name for github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2016-08-03 02:20 +0200
  Re: Package name for github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio John Mark Vandenberg <jayvdb@gmail.com> - 2016-08-03 02:30 +0200
    Re: Package name for github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio Luke Yeager <luke.yeager@gmail.com> - 2016-08-03 03:20 +0200

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