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

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On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 at 09:12:22 +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> 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.

Debian cannot provide more than one Python module named socketio, have them
co-installable, and make them both work in Python via "import socketio"
without taking some sort of special steps to choose one. It's exactly the
same problem as having two C libraries both trying to be named libfoo.so.0.

The policy has been useful here, because you have found that there is
a problem now, not later.

(I don't have a general solution to the problem of upstreams naming things
as generically as this either.)

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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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