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

From	Ghislain Vaillant <ghisvail@gmail.com>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.maint.python
Subject	Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules?
Date	2018-03-13 10:00 +0100
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Le mardi 13 mars 2018 à 09:18 +0100, Thomas Goirand a écrit :
> On 03/13/2018 12:29 AM, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> > Imo, we should just make it clear in policy that source packages
> > should be named `foo` or `python-foo`,
> > and corresponding doc packages should be named `foo-doc` or
> > `python-foo-doc`.
> 
> Very often, "foo" is already taken by another package, and we have to
> fallback to python-foo. Think about generic libs for compression,
> images, network standards...

Agreed.

> Which is why I think we should have standardize on python-foo for the
> source package (which is what I do).

Same here.

Do you think we should be recommending the use of `python-foo` in the
DPMT packaging policy? This could help avoiding ITPs for `python3-bar`.

Ghis

Thread

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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