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Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules?

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From Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>
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Subject Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules?
Date Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:20:02 +0100
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On 03/12/2018 11:16 AM, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> policy (12.3) says, that putting the contents of package-doc
> into /usr/share/doc/package/ (main package) is preferred over
> /usr/share/doc/package-doc/. debhelper detects the Python 2
> package as main package. One can override this to the path for
> the Python 3 package, but both feels wrong to me. Even if we
> drop Python 2 at some point, maybe then there is Python 4 or
> PyPy. I tend to stay with the traditional path, and ignore
> the preference of our beloved policy. Not without first
> consulting this very mailing list, of course. Opinions?
> 
> TIA & Cheers

I also asked myself this question for python3 only packages.

I used to have:
- python-foo
- python3-foo
- python-foo-doc

But what now that python-foo is gone? Should I rename the doc package?
Please share your thoughts,

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules? "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2018-03-12 11:20 +0100
  Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules? Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org> - 2018-03-12 11:40 +0100
    Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules? "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2018-03-12 14:30 +0100
  Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules? Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2018-03-12 23:20 +0100
    Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules? "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2018-03-12 23:40 +0100
      Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules? Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com> - 2018-03-13 00:40 +0100
        Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules? Ben Finney <bignose@debian.org> - 2018-03-13 08:20 +0100
        Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules? Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2018-03-13 09:20 +0100
          Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules? Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com> - 2018-03-13 10:00 +0100
          Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules? "W. Martin Borgert" <debacle@debian.org> - 2018-03-13 10:00 +0100
          Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules? Ole Streicher <olebole@debian.org> - 2018-03-13 10:30 +0100
            Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules? Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2018-03-13 14:10 +0100

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