[PKG-Openstack-devel] Bug#797590: python-rtslib-fb: Module import name has moved to "rtslib_fb"

[Andy Grover]

On 09/01/2015 04:41 AM, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> Hi Andy,
>
> How do you propose that I do what you suggested (ie: package rtslib-fb
> with both names available)? Isn't this something you should work out
> yourself, as an upstream?
>
> BTW, thanks for solving this conflict. With my package maintainer hat
> on, this is very much appreciated.

I haven't found an elegant way to alias package names -- I guess it's 
not a very common issue. What I've done is have the upstream setup.py 
lists both rtslib and rtslib_fb as packages, and the tarball has 
rtslib_fb/ as a symlink to rtslib/. Setup.py builds and installs both. 
Importing with the name "rtslib" generates a deprecation warning.

If OpenStack is the only user of rtslib-fb, I just took a look at Cinder 
and it appears they've already made the change to try importing 
rtslib_fb first! So maybe the transition period where we have both can 
be relatively short.

-- Andy