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authorMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2020-03-14 01:42:02 +0100
committerMarius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com>2020-03-14 01:42:02 +0100
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Merge branch 'master' into staging
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@@ -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