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| author | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2020-03-11 15:31:59 -0400 |
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| committer | Leo Famulari <leo@famulari.name> | 2020-03-13 19:27:33 -0400 |
| commit | 39356057bce20f74120b6d227567a943556717cc (patch) | |
| tree | d5de49883a4122a4ed1b8d12cc3083ccf39b4da1 /doc/contributing.texi | |
| parent | 364a1374ad5e04a91cdc29203f0c8073eede72d4 (diff) | |
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doc: Update guidance about Python 2 package variants.
* doc/contributing.texi (Python Modules): Don't recommend adding Python-2
package variants by default.
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diff --git a/doc/contributing.texi b/doc/contributing.texi index afcc030b4f..31b875f817 100644 --- a/doc/contributing.texi +++ b/doc/contributing.texi @@ -612,11 +612,12 @@ To avoid confusion and naming clashes with other programming languages, it seems desirable that the name of a package for a Python module contains the word @code{python}. -Some modules are compatible with only one version of Python, others with both. -If the package Foo compiles only with Python 3, we name it -@code{python-foo}; if it compiles only with Python 2, we name it -@code{python2-foo}. If it is compatible with both versions, we create two -packages with the corresponding names. +Some modules are compatible with only one version of Python, others with +both. If the package Foo is compiled with Python 3, we name it +@code{python-foo}. If it is compiled with Python 2, we name it +@code{python2-foo}. Packages should be added when they are necessary; +we don't add Python 2 variants of the package unless we are going to use +them. If a project already contains the word @code{python}, we drop this; for instance, the module python-dateutil is packaged under the names |