[Debian-astro-maintainers] Bug#1085728: python-multipart: Make room for https://pypi.org/project/multipart/ somehow?

[Colin Watson]

On Wed, Nov 06, 2024 at 06:17:55PM +0000, Simon McVittie wrote:
> On Wed, 06 Nov 2024 at 18:00:43 +0000, Colin Watson wrote:
> >  * Rename python-multipart source package to python-python-multipart,
> >    and its binary package to python3-python-multipart.  Yes, it's a bit
> >    ugly, but there are currently 13 other binary packages in the archive
> >    whose names start with "python3-python-", so there's precedent, and
> >    it matches the way we usually transform PyPI names into Debian
> >    package names.
> 
> The policy says we do not transform PyPI names into Debian package names
> (or at least, not binary package names). Instead, we transform the name
> that you can `import` into a Debian binary package name.
> 
> But if src:python-multipart is moving towards the name that you should
> canonically import being `python_multipart`, then its correct binary
> package name would be python3-python-multipart anyway.

Thanks for the correction.  I agree.

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Colin Watson (he/him)                              [cjwatson at debian.org]