Re: Bug#1052421: ITP: control -- Python Control Systems Library

[Kurva Prashanth <krvprashanth@riseup.net>]

On 2023-09-22 02:20, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2023 at 08:37:53PM +0000, Kurva Prashanth wrote:
>> It seems debian python team following certain convention when naming
>> packages for python modules, libraries prefixed with "python-" and
>> python3 packages are prefixed with "pyhton3-".
> python3- prefixes for binary packages are mandated by
> https://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/index.html#module-package-names
> There is no requirement for source packages to be prefixed with python-,
> but it's often done e.g. to not pollute the source package namespace,
> which makes total sense in your case.
> 
>> will use python3-control over python-control as it's a python3 package.
> This goes against the current practice.
Ah,Thanks for providing this information about Python package naming
conventions. Yeah, python-control package name seems okay in this
context.

will be using these:
    
    Source: python-control
    Binary: python3-control

Regards,
Kurva Prashanth