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author | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2020-03-14 13:13:40 +0100 |
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committer | Marius Bakke <mbakke@fastmail.com> | 2020-03-14 13:13:40 +0100 |
commit | 961d2ee2695b38503b463d055e9c7edbcc0bf307 (patch) | |
tree | 82d9b40477a1d4d88e75a187b2b637a56751480b /doc/contributing.texi | |
parent | 7cf79d7a51ff5dde4fc430fab2296b5f7de08953 (diff) | |
parent | aebba13c0bef5a58697f1a9fe8337967cc01300f (diff) | |
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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 |