Package rename creates hassle for maintainers
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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python-rackspace-cloudservers (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: python-
Shortly before Lucid was released, bug 563434 was filed, asking for this package to be renamed from python-cloudservers to python-
Debian Python Policy section 2.2 says: "The binary package for module foo should preferably be named python-foo, if the module name allows, but this is not required if the binary package ships multiple modules.". This package provides a module named "cloudservers" (and no other modules), so per policy the correct name for this package is python-
My sponsor in Debian (Piotr Ożarowski) said he might have accepted a change to call the binary package "python-
As for the source package name, upstream called their package "python-
In short, I'd like to suggest that the source package is renamed to python-cloudservers and ideally the binary as well (to follow policy).