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Re: Package Naming



On 2016-05-11 22:13, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Christian Kastner <ckk@debian.org> writes:
>> On 2016-05-11 03:41, Benda Xu wrote:
>>> 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?
> 
>> According to the Debian Python Policy [1] and assuming from [2] that the
>> module name is "casacore"
> 
>> [2] http://casacore.github.io/python-casacore/
> 
> That is another package. As far as I understand it, the libraries
> mentioned by Benda are just some data type converters; they don't
> contain an importable module. The package in [2] is built on top of this
> library (but a package that is built independently), and this should
> ofcourse get the name given in the policy.
> 
> The library Benda speaks about is not covered by the Python Policy, but
> a normal shared library that should be covered by the standard Debian
> Policy.

I should have looked into it more. Thank you for correcting me!

Regards,
Christian

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