[liblinear] 75/123: Updated README.Debian for python-liblinear

[Christian Kastner]

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commit b8a9824a08eae28eaad63d4daab0358cd84a12fc
Author: Christian Kastner <debian at kvr.at>
Date:   Thu Mar 17 21:43:15 2011 +0100

    Updated README.Debian for python-liblinear
---
 debian/changelog                      |  3 ++-
 debian/python-liblinear.README.Debian | 22 ++++++++++------------
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)

diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 597933a..da1464d 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -5,7 +5,8 @@ liblinear (1.7+dfsg-1) unstable; urgency=low
     - NAMESPACE CHANGE. In anticipation of upstream's namespace switch for the
       next release, our own namespace switch (which broke compatibility) was
       modified to conform to it.
-    - Added NEWS file indicating namespace change.
+    - Added NEWS file indicating namespace change
+    - Updated README.Debian indicating namespace change
   * debian/control:
     - Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.1 (no changes needed)
     - Modified Depends: of liblinear-dev to support alternative BLAS
diff --git a/debian/python-liblinear.README.Debian b/debian/python-liblinear.README.Debian
index 593f44e..dcc6879 100644
--- a/debian/python-liblinear.README.Debian
+++ b/debian/python-liblinear.README.Debian
@@ -1,20 +1,18 @@
 python-liblinear for Debian
 ---------------------------
 
-IMPORTANT: Note that the Python bindings have been moved to the package
-"liblinear". This has been done to avoid possible name collisions, as "linear"
-is very generic.
+IMPORTANT: To avoid possible name collisions, the Python bindings have been
+renamed:
 
-So, wherever the documentation (especially upstream's README) instructs you to
-use one of,
+    linear      -> liblinear
+    linearutil  -> liblinearutil
 
-    import linear
-    import linearutil
+This namespace switch has already been discussed with upstream, who confirmed
+that it will be adopted in the next release.
 
-use
-    from liblinear import linear
-    from liblinear import linearutil
 
-instead.
+Historical note: we broke the namespace before by moving the Python bindings
+to the package "liblinear". We dropped this change in favor of the solution
+agreed upon with upstream instead.
 
- -- Christian Kastner <debian at kvr.at>  Sat, 18 Sep 2010 20:21:31 +0200
+ -- Christian Kastner <debian at kvr.at>  Thu, 17 Mar 2011 21:38:07 +0100

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