[Debian Wiki, 2015-10-07]
> https://wiki.debian.org/Python/LibraryStyleGuide?action=diff&rev1=64&rev2=65
>
>
> == Gotchas ==
>
> + === Executables and library packages ===
> +
> + Let's say you have a Python package which results in Python 2 and 3 libraries, and a Python 3 executable. What is the best practices for naming and organizing your binary packages?
> +
> + Clearly you want to have:
> +
> + * python-foo -- the Python 2 library
> + * python3-foo -- the Python 3 library
* foo -- for the executable (and possible additional dependencies that library doesn't need)
maybe extent it to:
* python-foo -- the Python 2 library (and Python 2.X scripts if they're Python 2.X specific)
* python3-foo -- the Python 3 library (and Python 3.X scripts if they're Python 3.X specific)
> +
> + but where should the `/usr/bin/foo` script go? You could put it in `python3-foo` but you '''CANNOT''' put it in `python-foo` or for that matter any binary package that starts with the `python-` prefix. `dh_python3` refuses to rewrite shebang lines for any executable in a binary package that starts with "python-" or "pypy-". This means that something like `python-foo-cli` or `python-foo-bin` is unacceptable.
I'd remove this part - it's not dh_python3 specific (dh_python2 and
dh_pypy does similar things) and I don't think such corner case should
be in style guide
> +
> + Here are some recommendations. We do not have a standard (though maybe we should):
> +
> + * `foo` - this is nice if it parallels the /usr/bin/foo name but it might collide with existing packages, and some people don't like to make such a claim on an unadorned top level package
> + * `python3-foo-cli` or `python3-foo-bin` - not as nicely discoverable, but `command-not-found` can help, and dh_python3 will work
if someone creates python3-foo-cli binary just to ship /usr/bin/foo it
might as well be foo (if there are no /usr/bin/foo name collisions,
binary package name should be safe as well) so I'd remove it
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