Re: package name for what upstream calls protobuf3

[Jakub Wilk]

* Jonathon Love , 2016-05-18, 18:45:

i'm in the process of packaging protobuf3:

https://github.com/Pr0Ger/protobuf3

this is an implementation of protocol buffers 2 for python 3.

according to debian policy, this should be named python3-protobuf3, but 
i think this name isn't ideal


I don't know anything about anything about Python, but if packaging 
policy says that the package name should be named after the module name, 
and it turns out that the package name is too generic or misleading or 
otherwise inadequate, then that's only because the module name had 
exactly the same problem. So please get it renamed upstream. This is not 
something that should be papered over by deviating from the usual naming 
policy.


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Jakub Wilk

package name for what upstream calls protobuf3

[Jonathon Love]

hi,

i'm in the process of packaging protobuf3:

https://github.com/Pr0Ger/protobuf3

this is an implementation of protocol buffers 2 for python 3.

according to debian policy, this should be named python3-protobuf3, but 
i think this name isn't ideal, because it could be mistaken for:


a) an implementation of protocol buffers 3

b) the official google protocol buffers implementation

i'm proposing to call it:

python3-pr0ger-protobuf3

what should i call it?

with thanks

jonathon