On 2016-05-11 03:41, Benda Xu wrote: > Hi, > > I am packaging a library called "casacore" which provides > > libcasa_python3.so.2 and libcasa_python.so.2 > > with SONAME=2. > > How should them be named when the python major version and SONAME could > cause confusion? > > I can think of > > libcasa2-python3 vs libcasa2-python > > or > > libcasa-python3-2 vs libcasa-python-2 > > or > > python3-libcasa2 vs python-libcasa2 > > or > > python3-casacore2 vs python-casacore2 According to the Debian Python Policy [1] and assuming from [2] that the module name is "casacore", the name should be: Python2: python-casacore Python3: python3-casacore After all, one would "import casacore", and not "import casacore2". [1] https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-module_packages.html#s-package_names [2] http://casacore.github.io/python-casacore/ Regards, Christian
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