[Letsencrypt-devel] Package Name Change

[Francois Marier]

On 2016-04-11 07:33, Harlan Lieberman-Berg wrote:
> At this point, it looks like the python modules will be changing the
> distribution name, but not the actual module name (i.e., pip install
> <new name>, but import letsencrypt).  If that stays the same, I think
> it's probably OK for us to leave the name of python-letsencrypt alone.
> 
> I think we should turn letsencrypt into a virtual package and Provide 
> it
> from <new name>.  I'm not 100% sure what to do with the
> python-letsencrypt-apache module, though.  It /is/ technically user
> facing, in that you need to install that module to have the
> functionality and we don't Recommend it (since that would pull in
> apache2).  But it also seems a bit strange to have a package 
> python-<new
> name>-apache which installs an actual module named letsencrypt-apache.
> I suppose we could do something with a virtual package here 
> (python-<new
> name>-apache Provides python-letsencrypt-apache), but...
> 
> I'd appreciate some advice here.  What do you all think?

Can't we just keep python-letsencrypt-apache since that's the name that 
actually matters to users?

If they ever change the "import" name, then we should probably rename 
the binary packages, but in the meantime, it's probably less confusing 
to stick with the existing names.

Francois