Re: Bug #751908, tox, and bin-only Python packages

2015-08-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 06, 2015, at 05:08 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >everything that doesn't match python[\d.]*- is fine IMHO. Here's some language for DPP: === modified file 'debian/python-policy.sgml' --- debian/python-policy.sgml 2015-02-27 23:09:27 + +++ debian/python-policy.sgml 2015-08-06 19:04:4

Re: Bug #751908, tox, and bin-only Python packages

2015-08-06 Thread Barry Warsaw
On Aug 06, 2015, at 04:20 PM, Simon McVittie wrote: >Policy has this to say on the subject of a different flat global namespace: > >"When scripts are installed into a directory in the system PATH, the >script name should not include an extension such as .sh or .pl that >denotes the scripting langu

Re: Bug #751908, tox, and bin-only Python packages

2015-08-06 Thread Julien Cristau
On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 17:08:35 +0200, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: > [Barry Warsaw, 2015-08-06] > > Should there be a naming convention for Python packages which only provide > > an > > executable? > > everything that doesn't match python[\d.]*- is fine IMHO. > > If "tox" is too generic, use tox-py

Re: Bug #751908, tox, and bin-only Python packages

2015-08-06 Thread Simon McVittie
On 06/08/15 15:50, Barry Warsaw wrote: > The example that sparked issue #751908 was tox, which when I initially > packaged it, I called the binary package python-tox. I did this because, > while the package does not provide any publicly importable modules, I felt it > was presumptuous to claim a r

Re: Bug #751908, tox, and bin-only Python packages

2015-08-06 Thread Piotr Ożarowski
[Barry Warsaw, 2015-08-06] > Should there be a naming convention for Python packages which only provide an > executable? everything that doesn't match python[\d.]*- is fine IMHO. If "tox" is too generic, use tox-python -- Piotr Ożarowski Debian GNU/Linux Developer www.oza