Luke Yeager <luke.yea...@gmail.com> writes: > The policy manual says the package name should be "python-socketio" > since I want to create a python2 package that provides the "socketio" > module. > > But that name is already taken by this project: > https://github.com/abourget/gevent-socketio
Yes, this is a problem with the current Debian Python policy: it assumes distribution authors will not collide on package names. I don't have an answer, though I will point out that whatever the solution is, it will be incompatible with the current Debian Python policy for at least one of those packages. We need to discuss the problem and find a general solution that accepts the reality that upstream authors sometimes don't check whether the Python package name is already taken. -- \ “I was once walking through the forest alone and a tree fell | `\ right in front of me, and I didn't hear it.” —Steven Wright | _o__) | Ben Finney
