Anticipating the migration: python-support 0.90 in unstable (was: Package names for docutils writers)

2009-03-25 Thread Ben Finney
Michael Schutte writes: > This is how I understand the problem: python-central writes to > /usr/lib/python*/site-packages, while python-support uses > /var/lib/python-support/python*. Python finds docutils/__init__.py > in one directory and doesn’t look for modules starting with > “docutils.” any

Re: Package names for docutils writers

2009-03-21 Thread Adeodato Simó
* Michael Schutte [Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:26:12 +0100]: > This is how I understand the problem: python-central writes to > /usr/lib/python*/site-packages, while python-support uses > /var/lib/python-support/python*. Python finds docutils/__init__.py in > one directory and doesn’t look for modules st

Re: Package names for docutils writers

2009-03-21 Thread Michael Schutte
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 05:58:59PM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Michael Schutte writes: > > > It might make sense to wait a little longer for these uploads: Piotr > > takes care of python-docutils’ conversion to python-support (from > > -central) > > I am waiting for ‘python-support’ 0.90 or later

Re: Package names for docutils writers

2009-03-20 Thread Ben Finney
Michael Schutte writes: > It might make sense to wait a little longer for these uploads: Piotr > takes care of python-docutils’ conversion to python-support (from > -central) I am waiting for ‘python-support’ 0.90 or later to reach ‘testing’ before doing a similar switch. > which means that we’

Re: Package names for docutils writers

2009-03-20 Thread Michael Schutte
Hi again, On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 02:26:13PM +0100, Michael Schutte wrote: > On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:36:38AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > > Let's give the discussion a week of elapsed time (Michael's original > > message has the field ‘Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:55:03 +0100’) to > > allow other po

Re: Package names for docutils writers

2009-03-13 Thread Michael Schutte
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 11:36:38AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Chris Lamb writes: > > Ah, I like this. We all agreed? > > So far, yes. > > Let's give the discussion a week of elapsed time (Michael's original > message has the field ‘Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:55:03 +0100’) to > allow other potenti

Re: Package names for docutils writers

2009-03-12 Thread Ben Finney
Chris Lamb writes: > Michael Schutte wrote: > > > At the moment it’s really just us three. So, Chris, what do you > > think? :-) > > Ah, I like this. We all agreed? So far, yes. Let's give the discussion a week of elapsed time (Michael's original message has the field ‘Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009

Re: Package names for docutils writers

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Lamb
Michael Schutte wrote: > > So I think the following naming style is appropriate: > > > > docutils-reader-foo [..] > > These are components of the Docutils system; and such extensions can > > be of several distinct purposes (hence “reader”, “transform”, > > “writer”, etc.) [..] > At the moment

Re: Package names for docutils writers

2009-03-12 Thread Michael Schutte
Hi, On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 09:55:12AM +1100, Ben Finney wrote: > Here's my reasoning. > > I no longer think ‘python-’ is an appropriate prefix for the package > name. These packages are primarily components of Docutils, so they are > “private” in that they are entirely within the context of Docu

Re: Package names for docutils writers

2009-03-12 Thread Chris Lamb
Michael Schutte wrote: > I’ve considered this, of course, but I don’t know if this is really the > right thing to do given the frontend’s size (3 kiB in my case). [..] > I’m not sure whether this is desirable. Heh, no. Anyway, I'd be more than happy to rename to fit a consensus/scheme. Regards,

Re: Package names for docutils writers

2009-03-11 Thread Ben Finney
Michael Schutte writes: > The binary package is currently called python-odtwriter; after a > discussion in February 2008 [1], I decided to stick with this name. I participated in that discussion, but I find that my position has changed. > In the meantime, docutils-writer-manpage entered the arc

Re: Package names for docutils writers

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Schutte
Hey, On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 04:41:18PM +, Chris Lamb wrote: > > And then there is rst2pdf (Chris Lamb) which does the all-in-one thing > > in a single eponymous .deb. > [..] > > Since I care about consistency, I’d like to get this sorted out. My > > personal preference would be “python-docut

Re: Package names for docutils writers

2009-03-11 Thread Chris Lamb
Michael Schutte wrote: > And then there is rst2pdf (Chris Lamb) which does the all-in-one thing > in a single eponymous .deb. [..] > Since I care about consistency, I’d like to get this sorted out. My > personal preference would be “python-docutils-X”: it’s short, > reasonably precise and explana

Package names for docutils writers

2009-03-11 Thread Michael Schutte
Hi everyone, I’m the maintainer of odtwriter, a Python library which enhances docutils. It provides a docutils.writers.odtwriter module to make docutils capable of writing OpenDocument Text files. For the user, though, the /usr/bin/rst2odt script is the primary interface. The binary package is