>> In my opinion, packages like "pygtk" and "pyqt" that add new >> modules to Python should always be renamed to "python-*" [...]
> [...] > As far as finding stuff in dselect goes... try "/". That is what I'm doing. But dselect does only support simple substring searches and when I'm searching for "py" I find packages like "happy" or "floppybackup" which I'm not interested in. > I think it would be much more difficult to find Debianized > packages if they had a different name than what the author > originally gave them, That's only true if you know the upstream package's name. Quite often I want to find out if there's already a module that provides some functionality I need, and then I browse through the descriptions of the packages beginning with "python-".