On Sun, Oct 11, 2026 at 12:29:21PM +0200, Pieter Lenaerts wrote:
How about logfire and pydantic_handlebars? I was thinking to align their
naming a bit by using pydantic in the source pkg. What do you think?
<[1]https://bugs.debian.org/1150536>
<[2]https://bugs.debian.org/1143122>
We don't align on GitHub organization names. The effective namespace
for published Python packages is nearly always PyPI, so we align on the
names used there, prefixing "python-" to avoid clashing with other
ecosystems. The "python-" prefix may be omitted if there's already some
prefix that makes it obvious that this is Python, so "pytest-examples"
would be fine as an alternative to "python-pytest-examples", since
there's essentially no chance of "pytest" showing up in some other
ecosystem.
So pydantic_handlebars might be either "python-pydantic-handlebars" or
"pydantic-handlebars"; I'd go for just "pydantic-handlebars", since none
of the existing pydantic-* source packages have a "python-" prefix. But
logfire should be "python-logfire", because its canonical PyPI name is
"logfire" (not "pydantic-logfire", which is a redirecting stub), and
that isn't unambiguously Python enough to make it reasonable to claim
that name Debian-wide.
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Colin Watson (he/him) [[email protected]]
