2010/11/18 Hervé Cauwelier <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I packaged python-libgit2 but the upstream is dead. And a new Python binding > was started by the same team than libgit2 itself. It's named pygit2. > > So I wonder whether I keep the same package but point to the new repository > (and thus follow the Python naming convention) or I keep the upstream name > for people to find it (and follow packages like pygobject). > > Is it more important to prefix Python packages with "python-" or to respect > the upstream name. > > In the former, I'll write down "pygit2" in the package description. In the > latter, I'll ask for my old package to be deleted. > > Thanks for your advice.
Your choice, but it's common practice to follow upstream. You can upload a new pygit2 package, which would have a provision for python-libgit2. But I can't say anything about the python naming scheme - our repos still have both regular and pythonish schemes for python modules. Python apps, on the other hand, can have regular names.
