[Python-modules-team] Bug#567739: namespace pollution

[martin f krafft]

Package: python-django-registration
Version: 0.7-2
Severity: normal

python-django-registration drops a module called 'registration' into
the main python search path, but this module is only usable with
django. Therefore, it should be called django-registration, or
django.registration.

I realise that upstream is guilty of the namespace pollution and
that there are tools out there that use 'registration' as a name.
Therefore, a deprecation strategy would be in order, e.g. with
a file containing:

  import warnings
  msg = """The module 'registration' has moved to
    'django.registration', and is thus deprecated."""
  warnings.warn(msg, DeprecationWarning, stacklevel=2)

Ideally, this would be pushed upstream, if you can convince them.

Thanks,

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