[arch-general] Problem with packaging pyxdg and xdg from PyPI

[Ricardo Band]

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Ahoi,

I maintain a tool called virtualfish [1] on the AUR. It is writte in
python and one dependency of it is called xdg [2]. It is not packaged
in archlinux so I would just do that on the AUR. Problem is there
already is a package in archlinux extra which is called python-xdg [3].
That package includes a python library called pyxdg [4] which does
nearly the same as xdg but is still a different library.

In my opinion the arch packages python-xdg and python2-xdg have an
incorrect name. They should be called python-pyxdg so the xdg module
could be packaged under python-xdg.

The naming schema with the python-py prefix looks odd but isn't new. It
is already used in the pyserial [5] package.

How do we solve this problem?


[1]: https://pypi.org/project/virtualfish/
[2]: https://pypi.org/project/xdg/
[3]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/extra/any/python-xdg/
[4]: https://pypi.org/project/pyxdg/
[5]: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/community/any/python-pyserial/

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