Hi Simon, thanks for your helpful input.
On 30.12.19 18:04, Simon McVittie wrote: > There are two options: > > * If "lark" on PyPI is a dead project, or otherwise something that is never > going to be useful to package in Debian for some reason, then perhaps it's > safe for the lark parser to claim the python3-lark name. The last commit happened six years ago. It might be dead but I am not sure. > * Otherwise, if its PyPI name is lark-parser, then I would personally > recommend asking the upstream developer to rename the module you import > to lark_parser (or maybe larkparser if that's preferred), and packaging > it as python3-lark-parser (or python3-larkparser), optionally with > compatibility glue to make "import lark" continue to work (which might not > get packaged in Debian). I opened a corresponding issue: https://github.com/lark-parser/lark/issues/505 Peter