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Bug#887565: Please package python3-vlc



Hi 

> As long as the module is imported with "import vlc", the proper Debian package
> name is python-vlc for the Python 2 version and python3-vlc for the Python 3
> version. So that definitely needs to be fixed.

The easy fix would be for me to update the module name from python-vlc
to vlc in the setup.py file. Then the stdeb generated packages will be
correct. What prevented me from doing this before is the confusion it
may introduce (old names references in forums), but it is feasible [1].

Another issue I have with this is that some users do not understand
that python-vlc only installs bindings, not vlc itself. This will be
even worse if the name is vlc, but I guess that at some point, there is
 not much that can be done.

[1] http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0423/#how-to-rename-a-project

I can fix the package name, add the copyright info and put the
resulting packaged file in some git repo. What is the preferred
approach: a repository distinct from the upstream repo, or a repo
integrated in the upstream repo?

Olivier

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