[Python-modules-team] Bug#712479: py{-}sendfile: Name space conflict. Two source packages, one binary package.

[Ansgar Burchardt]

Control: reassign -1 src:pysendfile,src:py-sendfile

Hector Oron <zumbi at debian.org> writes:
>   Looking at buildd status packages,
>     https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=py-sendfile&suite=sid
>   py-sendfile has been in status 'uploaded' almost for a year now.
>
>   While commenting about that problem on #d-buildd IRC channel, ansgar
>   pointed out that we seem to have a couple source packages building
>   the same binary package.

That's a bug in the packages.

It looks like pysendfile is a rewrite of py-sendfile which was first
packages as pysendfile (which started to replace and conflict with
python-sendfile which already looks wrong[1]) and later took the binary
packages over. It nowhere says if this is intentional and py-sendfile
should be removed or if somebody messed up.

  [1] see Policy 10.1 unless they implement the same interface.

Ansgar