Am 16.06.2010 18:39, schrieb Jacob Kaplan-Moss:
Howdy folks --
I've received a request from the Debian and Ubuntu maintainers to
rename one of my packages [1] so that it'd comply better with the
Debian/Ubuntu naming standards. I'd like to help them out, and ideally
I'd like to rename my package on PyPI to match the name that APT will
use. However, as far as I can tell there's no real mechanism for
renaming packages on PyPI: if I change the name, everyone's
pip/buildout dependencies will just fail until they, too, update the
name.
Ideally, I'd expect PyPI to give me a renaming mechanism that'd issue
the proper redirects from the old name to the new. Apologies if I'm
just not seeing a feature that's already there; if it's not, though,
are there any plans for this in the future? Or any other bright ideas?
There is a renaming mechanism, but it does just that: rename the
package, and all releases. Also, it's available only to the admin, so
you have to request it through the bug tracker.
It turns out that this actually causes problems (beyond the
dependencies): the files are *not* renamed, and that is, at least,
confusing (because they stop matching the project name). Renaming
the files is no option, either, because they then stop matching
the embedded setup.py.
I think your proposed mechanism wouldn't work too well, either: if you
issue redirects, then setuptools will follow the redirects, too.
Depending on the package name you originally requested, it will then
fail to see either the old files or the new files, since they don't
match the project name.
So I think the best you can hope for is this:
- you have the old releases, and they are easy_installable only
with the old name.
- you have the new releases, and they are easy_installable only with
the new name.
If that's all you can get, I suggest just to create the new package, and
release under the new package name. For human users of the package
index, create a single release of the old package, with a description
that has a link to the new name.
Regards,
Martin
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