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Re: Inconsistency in source package naming for python modules



On 07/11/2013 04:07 AM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote:
> [Thomas Goirand, 2013-07-10]
>> And then, finally, it's called "migrate" instead of "sqlalchemy-migrate"
>> like upstream called it... :)
>> (this never happened to me with python-migrate, though that's a good
>> example of a IMO badly named source package)
> 
> if you wanted to download python-migrate's sources... why didn't you
> tell apt-get that that's what you want?
> apt-get is clever enough to figure out the right source package name:
> 
> $ apt-get source python-migrate
> [...]
> Picking 'migrate' as source package instead of 'python-migrate'
> [...]

Please don't pick on that specific example.

> `debcheckout python-migrate` will pick the right source package as well

debcheckout will use SVN, and I prefer git-svn.

Anyway, we're digressing. If you don't see a value in consistency, never
mind.

Thomas


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