[Debian-med-packaging] pbh5tools_0.8.0+dfsg-5_amd64.changes REJECTED

Afif Elghraoui afif at debian.org
Thu Apr 21 06:03:10 UTC 2016


Hi, Thorsten,
I haven't heard any renewed objection from you since providing my
justification (below) and Andreas Tille has added a word of support in
reply. I've uploaded the same thing again, hoping for acceptance this time.

Many thanks and regards
Afif

على الثلاثاء  5 نيسـان 2016 ‫23:35، كتب Afif Elghraoui:
> Hi, Thorsten,
> 
> على الأحد  3 نيسـان 2016 ‫12:00، كتب Thorsten Alteholz:
>>
>> I am not sure what you want to achieve with renaming the source package.
>>
> 
> The intention was to clarify the type of package and make it clear to
> co-maintainers and others in Debian. It is primarily a python
> application, not a python library, but the name of the source package
> reflects a python library.
> 
>> Wouldn't it be better to remove the binary pbh5tools instead?
> 
> I don't think so---If anything should be removed, it should be the
> python-pbhtools binary package.
> 
>> At least 
>> the whole software is written in python, isn't it?
>>
> 
> Mostly (aside from a C extension), but the python-<module> naming scheme
> is for Python modules. As I said, that is a minimal use case for this
> package. It's primary purpose is to provide some command-line tools.
> 
> While renaming the source package doesn't do anything for users, it will
> at least also make things clear for maintainers. I'm hoping this is not
> a big problem.
> 
> Many thanks and regards
> Afif
> 

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