Re: package pynmea2

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

On Tue, 2017-11-14 at 12:13:55 -0200, Herbert Fortes wrote:
> There was a ITP-RFS for pynmea2. But python-nmea2 already
> exists.
> 
> https://packages.qa.debian.org/p/python-nmea2.html
> 
> I asked the contributor (2017-11-12) to close the bugs with 
> an nnnnn-done@bugs.debian.org but he sent nnnn-close@bugs.debian.org 
> to ITP only. RFS still open.
> 
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=871468
> 
> Today I received an email saying that pynmea2 was accepted. It
> already has a page:
> 
> https://packages.qa.debian.org/p/pynmea2.html

:(

> What to do ? Ask FTP-Master to remove the package ?

This is IMO, fundamentally a problem with the current python policy
which does not require that source package names MUST be normalized
and namespaced with python-, and get py prefixes removed and similar.
Following the exemple set by other lang-specific policies.

This causes the problem of different name manglings depending on who
is packaging, and search misses like happened here. It also
unjustifyingly stomps on the global source package namespace with
many times extremely generic names. :(

I filed #791635 some time ago, but didn't find the energy to it
discuss forward given the initial reply. But probably I should!

Thanks,
Guillem