On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 06:17:55PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Wed, 06 Nov 2024 at 18:00:43 +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > * Rename python-multipart source package to python-python-multipart, > > and its binary package to python3-python-multipart. Yes, it's a bit > > ugly, but there are currently 13 other binary packages in the archive > > whose names start with "python3-python-", so there's precedent, and > > it matches the way we usually transform PyPI names into Debian > > package names. > > The policy says we do not transform PyPI names into Debian package names > (or at least, not binary package names). Instead, we transform the name > that you can `import` into a Debian binary package name. > > But if src:python-multipart is moving towards the name that you should > canonically import being `python_multipart`, then its correct binary > package name would be python3-python-multipart anyway.
Thanks for the correction. I agree. -- Colin Watson (he/him) [cjwat...@debian.org]
