Re: Where to put docs of a -doc package for python 2 + 3 modules?

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 03/12/2018 11:16 AM, W. Martin Borgert wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> policy (12.3) says, that putting the contents of package-doc
> into /usr/share/doc/package/ (main package) is preferred over
> /usr/share/doc/package-doc/. debhelper detects the Python 2
> package as main package. One can override this to the path for
> the Python 3 package, but both feels wrong to me. Even if we
> drop Python 2 at some point, maybe then there is Python 4 or
> PyPy. I tend to stay with the traditional path, and ignore
> the preference of our beloved policy. Not without first
> consulting this very mailing list, of course. Opinions?
> 
> TIA & Cheers

I also asked myself this question for python3 only packages.

I used to have:
- python-foo
- python3-foo
- python-foo-doc

But what now that python-foo is gone? Should I rename the doc package?
Please share your thoughts,

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)