On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 08:37:53PM +0000, Kurva Prashanth wrote: > It seems debian python team following certain convention when naming > packages for python modules, libraries prefixed with "python-" and > python3 packages are prefixed with "pyhton3-". python3- prefixes for binary packages are mandated by https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/index.html#module-package-names There is no requirement for source packages to be prefixed with python-, but it's often done e.g. to not pollute the source package namespace, which makes total sense in your case.
> will use python3-control over python-control as it's a python3 package. This goes against the current practice.
