Bug#489722: python-debian: names should conform with PEP 8

[Stefano Zacchiroli]

On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 09:49:48PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote:
> The Python community largely expects code to conform to PEP 8 
<snip>
> It renames all mixedCase names to be lower_case in conformance with
> PEP 8. Where those names are part of the API, a function with the
> existing name is provided that raises a DeprecationWarning and calls
> the real function.

What do other python-debian maintainers think of this proposal?

Personally, I'm in favour of it. Still I believe we need broad consensus
before going forward, as it will introduce quite a few deprecation
warning.

+1 for me.

Cheers.

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