Bug#606633: Bug#620159: python-stats: Provides io module, which is also the name of a stdlib module

[Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>]

On 03/30/2011 05:56 PM, Stefano Rivera wrote:
> Package: python-stats
> Version: 0.6-8
> Severity: serious
>
> python-stats provides 3 top level modules, one of which has the same
> name as a stdlib module. This will make it hard to import (stdlib comes
> first in the default sys.path), and can confuse other (broken) packages
> (i.e. #620087)
>
> $ dpkg -L python-stats
> /usr/share/pyshared/pstat.py
> /usr/share/pyshared/stats.py
> /usr/share/pyshared/io.py
>
> Can I suggest:
> * Removing io.py from the module. (Is it necessary?)
> * Moving the modules into a stats submodule (I can't see any rdepends, but
>    python-gamera will soon depend on it)

Keeping python-stats will not be necessary; maybe just use the copy included in 
gamera, and then file a request to remove the package from unstable.

> * or removing it (Someone else wants this name: #606633)

even if the package is removed, using the same name for something new may lead 
to other incompatibilities.

  Matthias