Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-10 Thread Aaron Malone
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:21:39PM -0500, Aaron Malone wrote: > can do "grep-available python|grep ^Package|awk '{print $2}'|wc -l" oops. Lose the "|wc -l" from that, I pasted from a terminal and forgot to remove it. :) -- Aaron Malone ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) System Administrator "

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-10 Thread Aaron Malone
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 10:38:07PM +0200, Tomasz Wegrzanowski wrote: > > What about RE-searching for ^py ??? "grep-available python" is useful as well. To get a list of all the packages that have "python" in the requirements or descriptions, you can do "grep-available python|grep ^Package|awk '{

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-10 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 02:44:36PM +0200, JИrТme Marant wrote: > > I am pretty sure that python- prefix is for packages that provide some > > functionality > > in /usr/lib/site-python, /usr/lib/python{version}/site-packages > > Do you mean those whose .py files directly fit in site-packages itsel

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-10 Thread Tomasz Wegrzanowski
On Sat, Jun 10, 2000 at 11:56:46AM -0600, Bruce Sass wrote: > On 10 Jun 2000, Andreas Voegele wrote: > > >> In my opinion, packages like "pygtk" and "pyqt" that add new > > >> modules to Python should always be renamed to "python-*" [...] > > > > > [...] > > > > > As far as findin

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-10 Thread Bruce Sass
On 10 Jun 2000, Andreas Voegele wrote: > >> 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 dsele

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-10 Thread Andreas Voegele
>> 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 whe

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-09 Thread Chris Lawrence
On Jun 09, Michael Sobolev wrote: > On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:16:13AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Do all Debian python packages have to be prefixed by 'python-' ? > > I recently packaged the "pyunit" software and I still don't > > know if I have to rename it python-unit or if I can keep its >

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-09 Thread Bruce Sass
On 9 Jun 2000, Andreas Voegele wrote: > someone wrote: > > I would rather not go for renaming upstream packages, to avoid > > confusion. > > In my opinion, packages like "pygtk" and "pyqt" that add new modules > to Python should always be renamed to "python-*" since it is much > easier to

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-09 Thread J�r�me Marant
Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I am not a priori against, but there has to be a limit somewhere, and I guess > this is a borderline case. Again, to my mind, it is a practical reason: it would be better to know that htmlgen is a set of python classes, what you cannot guess as the p

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-09 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 06:04:57PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > there are however some issues... > > I have packaged pyncurses (http://pyncurses.sourceforge.net), which is > > a new, object oriented interface for ncurses. > > I cannot rename it t

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-09 Thread J�r�me Marant
Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > there are however some issues... > I have packaged pyncurses (http://pyncurses.sourceforge.net), which is > a new, object oriented interface for ncurses. > I cannot rename it to python-ncurses, since that is an upstream > name of another program (and

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-09 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 04:50:53PM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > Andreas Voegele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > In my opinion, packages like "pygtk" and "pyqt" that add new modules > > to Python should always be renamed to "python-*" since it is much > > easier to find these packages with dsel

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-09 Thread J�r�me Marant
Andreas Voegele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In my opinion, packages like "pygtk" and "pyqt" that add new modules > to Python should always be renamed to "python-*" since it is much > easier to find these packages with dselect if a consistent naming > scheme is used. I would say "all python lib

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-09 Thread Andreas Voegele
> I would rather not go for renaming upstream packages, to avoid > confusion. In my opinion, packages like "pygtk" and "pyqt" that add new modules to Python should always be renamed to "python-*" since it is much easier to find these packages with dselect if a consistent naming scheme is

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-09 Thread Jérôme Marant
Radovan Garabik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you are writting a package _for_ python, such as python-mpz, it is > appropriate if mpz is a standalone library, otherwise aesthetic > criteria apply :-) In my case, pyunit is a python library and is a standalone library, so I think it would be

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-09 Thread Radovan Garabik
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:16:13AM +0200, Jérôme Marant wrote: > > Hi, > > Do all Debian python packages have to be prefixed by 'python-' ? that is probably not necessary, compare with packages written in perl (latex2html came to my mind immediately) If you are writting a package _for_ python,

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-09 Thread J�r�me Marant
Michael Sobolev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Looks like there is at least one package that does not follow this "policy": > reportbug. Hmm, zope also uses its own naming scheme... :) > > I am pretty sure that python- prefix is for packages that provide some > functionality > in /usr/lib/site

Re: Policy for naming python packages

2000-06-09 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Fri, Jun 09, 2000 at 11:16:13AM +0200, JИrТme Marant wrote: > Do all Debian python packages have to be prefixed by 'python-' ? > I recently packaged the "pyunit" software and I still don't > know if I have to rename it python-unit or if I can keep its > name as is. Looks like there is at least o