Re: Bug#823832: ITP: python-mpd-parser -- MPEG-DASH MPD(Media Presentation Description) Parser

["Iain R. Learmonth" <irl@fsfe.org>]

Hi,

On 09/05/16 17:45, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Mon, 09 May 2016 at 14:26:23 +0200, Ondrej Koblizek wrote:
>> * Package name    : python-mpd-parser
> 
> Python packages in Debian should always be named after the highest-level
> module available for import, which in this case appears to be mpd,
> hence python[3]-mpd.
> 
> However, there is already a well-established "mpd" top-level Python
> module, for the Music Player Daemon. (python-mpd, in Debian since 2008;
> python-mpd and python-mpd2 on PyPI. python-mpd is the unmaintained
> original. python-mpd2 is a fork which still uses the "import mpd"
> namespace, and I'm in the process of switching the Debian package
> to it: <https://bugs.debian.org/808824>.)
> 
> Please talk to the upstream about a less colliding name, perhaps mpdesc.

I got really excited about MPEG-DASH support for Music Player Daemon
(what that would actually mean in practice I have no idea, but it
sounded very exciting).

Thanks,
Iain.