Re: Upstream packaging feedback

2012-10-05 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > Mapping of pypi distribution names was something that I looked into a small > bit with some Canonical people at PyCon two years ago. IIRC, it was part of > trying to map distribution packages with each other and with pypi in order > to f

Re: Upstream packaging feedback

2012-09-20 Thread Stanley A. Klein
00 am, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2012 15:14:07 -0700 > From: Toshio Kuratomi > To: Fedora Python SIG > Subject: Re: Upstream packaging feedback > > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 01:41:22PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: >> I'll likely b

Re: Upstream packaging feedback

2012-09-12 Thread Nick Coghlan
On 09/13/2012 08:14 AM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote: > All that said you can probably sidestep some of these issues by having > python packages contain explicit virtual Provides. These might be manually > added or automatically generated by a tool like pypi2rpm with the > maintainer editting them af

Re: Upstream packaging feedback

2012-09-12 Thread Toshio Kuratomi
On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 01:41:22PM +1000, Nick Coghlan wrote: > I'll likely be helping to guide updates to the Python packaging format > standards over the coming months. While they won't hit the standard > library until 3.4, there will likely be third party tool support in > earlier versions (sinc