Hi all,
It seems the current python modules naming guideline is ambiguous, different package maintainers use different naming conventions. It have also caused much controversy between submitter and reviewer which is just a waste of time, so I think it's worth to write a new python/python3 modules naming guideline for fedora. The purpose of this discussion is decreasing inconsistent package names of python modules in fedora. Personally, I don't mind how to name a package in fedora as long as the naming guideline is clear and won't create much divergence.
e.g. 1. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=603245 The module name for this package is zmq, the tarball name for this package is pyzmq. The submitter determined to use python-zmq as the pkgname, however there are some other choice for the pkgname(e.g. pyzmq, python-pyzmq)
2. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=623425 The module name for this package is Pyside, the tarball name for this package is pyside. The submitter determined to use python-pyside as the pkgname, however there are some other choice for the pkgname(e.g. python-PySide, pyside, PySide)
3. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=608509 The module and tarball name for this package is subvertpy. the submitter determined to use subvertpy as the pkgname, however there are some other choice for the pkgname(e.g. python-subvertpy)
4. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=606019 The module name for this package is setuptools, the tarball name for this package is distribute. The submitter determined to use python-distribute as the pkgname, however the current maintainer want to keep the name of python-setuptools.
There are also some other divergence in fedora repos, e.g. sympy/python-simpy, python-pycurl/pyflakes etc. There are much more inconsistency if we consider python and python3 modules, e.g. PyQt4/python3-PyQt4 pyke/python3-pyke.
I remember David Malcolm already wrote a naming guideline proposal for python3 modules one year ago[1], no one objects his proposal, so I think we can write a new packaging guideline draft based on his proposal.
First of all, I think we should remove exception rule from guideline - "There is an exception to this rule. If the upstream source has "py" (or "Py") in its name, you can use that name for the package" since we have several python runtimes in fedora/EPEL(e.g. python2/python3 for F13+ python2.4/2.6 for EPEL5) now.
Here is my draft refer to the debian naming policy[2]: Packages of python modules (thus they rely on python as a parent) use a slightly different naming scheme. They should be preferably named python-$NAME where the $NAME is the name of the module that you type to import it in a script, but this is not required if the package ships multiple modules. In the latter case the maintainer chooses the name which represents the package most (e.g. the upstream tarball or project name from which this software came). There is an exception to this rule, if the python module has a period '.' in its name, we should replace it with a dash '-' since '.' is not an acceptable separator for fedora.
Examples: python-zmq/python3-zmq (tarball name pyzmq) python-gtk/python3-gtk (tarball name pygtk) python-PyQt4/python3-PyQt4 (tarball name PyQt) python-MySQLdb/python3-MySQLdb (tarball name MySQL-python) python-twisted-core (tarball name TwistedCore, the package ships multiple modules) python-twisted-news (tarball name TwistedNews module name twisted.news) python-AppTools (tarball name AppTools, the package ships multiple modules)
[1]http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/python-devel/2009-October/000191.ht... [2]http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-module_packages...
Thought?
Regards, Chen Lei