[aur-general] python renaming

Bernardo Barros bernardobarros2 at gmail.com
Sun Jun 19 09:09:10 EDT 2011


python3-* do not make sense on a rolling release distro.

In Fedora, for example, they do. Then in Fedora 16 or whatever, they
just switch names. No problem.

For a rolling release distro I think we might think with an eye ahead
to avoid future problems.
For example,  take to python packages, A and B: A has a python3
version, B does not have one yet.
Since we don't have a python3 version of B, we say right now:

  'Oh, there is no reason to name a package python2-B since there is
no python3 version yet...'

Is that really true? I don't think so.. Because then we name them:
python2-A, python-A, python-B.

Three months later a python3 version of B is released, then we called
it python3-B... or.. we will have double work renaming stuff.
Even worse if they have different maintainers...

I think the solution is to be *very* consistent with packages names
whatever the situation of the python3 version is right now.
In other words: pick a guideline and stick to it. If
python2-X/python-X is the way to go, no matter there is a python3
package or not, use this convention...


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