[py3porters-devel] Bug#782942: Please provide a python3 module

[Barry Warsaw]

On May 20, 2015, at 05:36 PM, Ben Finney wrote:

>Generally: A package named ‘python-foo’ or ‘python3-foo’ is specifically
>targeting users who know they will be *programming* in Python 2 or
>Python 3, and are looking for a package to install libraries for that
>language.
>
>If the prospective user of the *program* ‘foocommand’ might not care
>about the implementation language, then the program should not be owned
>by the ‘python3-foo’ package.
>
>Only if the entire target userbase for the program ‘foocommand’ will
>always be thinking “I specifically want the one implemented in Python
>3”, would it be appropriate to have that program owned by ‘python3-foo’.
>
>If there is any reasonable chance such a prospective user might be
>looking for ‘foocommand’ but not care whether Python 3 implements the
>command, then the program should be in a package without a
>language-specific name.

And those types of Python version specific commands should be rare.  +1 for
the recommendations and reasons Ben gives.

Cheers,
-Barry