[aur-general] Python AUR tarball naming

Evangelos Foutras foutrelis at gmail.com
Fri Jan 28 16:03:51 EST 2011


On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 10:29 PM, David Campbell <davekong at archlinux.us> wrote:
> So what is the
> correct practice? Should the old python tarballs be deleted and
> replaced by python2-foo versions or should the python tarballs
> just be made to work with python2?

Renaming should be done whenever it makes sense to do so. My opinion
is that there's no point in renaming a Python package which only
exists for Python 2. On the other hand, if you're uploading a new
package, you might as well name it python2-foo.


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