On Thu, 26 Nov 2020 at 22:33:19 +0100, Steffen Möller wrote: > On 26.11.20 13:16, Nilesh Patra wrote: > > Currently src:python-babel provides 3 binaries: > > > > * python3-babel > > * python-babel-doc > > * python-babel-localedata > > > > of which python3-babel is the main binary, -babel-doc is for the > > documentation and -babel-localedata is for storing locale data files > > used by python3-babel. > > > > Should this be renamed to a "python3-" prefix for both binaries? They > > do not contain any actual code though > > I propose to have the "3" only for packages that depend on python3. The > source package name, documentation and data package names should not be > versioned.
For the documentation, https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/module_packages.html says python-babel-doc is correct (I wrote this wording, but the python3-defaults maintainers merged it and I think there's consensus that it's right): If the documentation for a module foo provided in python3-foo is large enough that a separate binary package for documentation is desired, then the documentation package should preferably be named python-foo-doc (and in particular, not python3-foo-doc). For the locale data, the policy doesn't say either way (Python libraries with separate version-independent data are somewhat rare), but I agree that python- is likely to be the most appropriate choice here too. A good way to decide this is to think about what we would do if we had a Python 4 that is incompatible with Python 3 (which I assume will happen eventually, although hopefully not for a few years). If these packages would be shared between python3-babel and python4-babel, then they should be named with an unversioned python- prefix. That's the reasoning for why the documentation gets a python- prefix. The unversioned python- namespace is shared between "Python 2 specifically" and "not specific to a Python version" for historical reasons: Python 1.x and 2.x were sufficiently compatible that there was no need to distinguish between python1-foo and python2-foo. smcv
