Re: autopkgtest-pkg-python fails if package name is python-pyMODULENAME (Was: Bug#945768: python-pypubsub: autopkgtest failure: No module named 'pypubsub')

[Simon McVittie <smcv@debian.org>]

On Fri, 29 Nov 2019 at 08:30:16 +0800,  Yao Wei (魏銘廷) wrote:
>     The binary package for module foo should preferably be named
>     python3-foo, if the module name allows
>
> If the module name has upper case in it, it would actually break Policy §5.6.1

I'd assumed the "foo" here was shorthand for
module_name.lower().replace('_', '-'), although maybe it would be better
for this to be explicit in the policy. For example, the modules with
which you can 'import Xlib' and 'import more_itertools' are packaged as
python3-xlib and python3-more-itertools.

autopkgtest-pkg-python would ideally transform - back to _ to decide
what to import, which would fix the more_itertools case? It would need
an override mechanism for the Xlib case anyway, because lower() isn't
a reversible transformation.

    smcv