Re: Package name for github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio

2016-08-02 Thread Luke Yeager
FYI I did a little searching and realized this has been discussed before. Sorry - I'm new to these old-style mailing lists. https://lists.debian.org/debian-python/2016/03/msg00074.html On Tue, Aug 2, 2016 at 5:28 PM, John Mark Vandenberg wrote: > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Luke Yeager wrot

Re: Package name for github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio

2016-08-02 Thread John Mark Vandenberg
On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 5:34 AM, Luke Yeager wrote: > I'd like to make a debian package for this repo: > https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio It is only a year old, so maybe they would be open to the idea they should pick a more unique name now. https://github.com/miguelgrinberg/pyth

Re: Package name for github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio

2016-08-02 Thread Simon McVittie
On Wed, 03 Aug 2016 at 09:12:22 +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Yes, this is a problem with the current Debian Python policy: it assumes > distribution authors will not collide on package names. > > I don't have an answer, though I will point out that whatever the > solution is, it will be incompatible

Re: Package name for github.com/miguelgrinberg/python-socketio

2016-08-02 Thread Ben Finney
Luke Yeager writes: > The policy manual says the package name should be "python-socketio" > since I want to create a python2 package that provides the "socketio" > module. > > But that name is already taken by this project: > https://github.com/abourget/gevent-socketio Yes, this is a problem wit