[Debian-olpc-devel] python- prefix

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi David (and others),

On Sat, Apr 17, 2010 at 07:06:06PM -0500, David Farning wrote:

>Can you help me understand the differences between the python- prefix
>and the sugar- prefix?

I can try :-)


>What is the naming difference between:
>1. python-sugar-toolkit-0.88 and sugar-tools-0.88 ?

Debian Python Policy requires Python module packages to be named 
python-<modulename>.  I choose to interpret that as being a requirement 
for the _binary_ package, and use upstream project name for the source 
package.

Also, due to supporting multiple branches of Sugar packages 
concurrently, I apend branch version to both source and binary packages, 
and provide a virtual binary package that fulfills the Python Policy 
requirement.

the "*-tools" name is just a common name for packages containing 
optional scripts or utilities for a library.  Another often used name 
for such packages is "*-utils"


>2. python-sugar-0.88 and sugar-0.88 ?

Again, the binary package is renamed to match the python module that it 
contains, while the source package is named after the upstream project.


Hope that makes sense.

  - Jonas

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