Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Thomas Goirand Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules? Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:20:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Mon Mar 12 22:16:18 2018 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: NOT_IN_SBL_XBL_SPAMHAUS=-1.5 NOT_IN_BL_NJABL=-1.5 CL_IP_EQ_HELO_IP=-2 (check from: .debian. - helo: .mx.atlanta.gplhost. - helo-domain: .gplhost.) FROM/MX_MATCHES_NOT_HELO(DOMAIN)=0; rate: -5 Organization: Debian User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/15631 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/f2135e53-305c-665d-a02d-1b1e2ac02eab@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 28 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2018 23:15:52 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <20180312101616.GA21465@fama> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:10236 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)