Re: pyfftw: renaming of built packages from python-fftw3-* to python-pyfftw-*
On Thu, 2014-05-22 at 07:51 +0100, Ghislain Vaillant wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> On afterthoughts, I believe the naming of the packages built from the
> pyfftw source package that I personally maintain should be changed.
> The package only entered the main archive recently, so I am expecting
> this change not to impact users too much.
>
> Main reasons for the renaming are the following, by order of
> importance:
> - to respect section 3.3 of the Debian Python Policy, regarding
> "Module Package Names"
>
> "The binary package for module foo should preferably be named
> python-foo "
>
> - confusion with the existing python-fftw package
> - the -fftw3 suffix is meaningless, should the FFTW lib move to
> version 4 in the future
> - the -fftw3 suffix could be useful to FFTW, should upstream decide to
> provide their own Python wrappers in the future
>
> Please let me know the best approach to deal with this. I will correct
> this too for pyNFFT, which is not yet packaged. Sorry for the newbie
> mistake.
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Ghislain
Answering my own question, the procedure for renaming a package is
described in section 5.9 of the developer's reference
(https://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/developers-reference/pkgs.html#s5.9.3) .
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