[Buildroot] Package naming convention [was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] scanpypi: new utility]

[Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>]

Dear Arnout Vandecappelle,

On Wed, 15 Jul 2015 16:17:08 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote:

>  Good question, we indeed have no real convention of what the buildroot name is
> for packages with weird characters.
> 
>  Actually, we do: keep the upstream name as much as possible. So python-webpy,
> for instance, keeps the upstream webpy name (note that the upstream name is
> webpy, even though the package is identified in PyPI as web.py. PyPI isn't very
> consistent either). For zope.interface, I actually see no reason not to keep the
> upstream name, so the package really should have been called
> python-zope.interface IMHO.
> 
>  What do the others think?

I missed this message. On my side, I would prefer to not have a
package named python-zope.interface. It should be named
python-zope-interface instead. I.e all weird characters should be
replaced by '-' in package names.

Thanks,

Thomas
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