Matching package names across distributions

[Olivier Thauvin]

* Enrico Zini (enrico at enricozini.org) wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2011 at 05:36:25PM +0100, Tarek Ziadé wrote:
> 
> > Interesting ! One thing I would really love to have is the same
> > matching tool for Python projects.
> > 
> > e.g. Distro name <-> Python / PyPI Name
> 
> I use some regexp in distromatch to 'stem' python package names to a
> name which is common across distribution, and which should get quite
> close to the PyPI name. Here they are (the capture parentesis catch
> the name):
> 
>   Debian: ^python\d?-(.+)$
>   Fedora: ^(.+)-python\d?$
>   Mandriva: ^python-(.+)$
>   OpenSUSE: ^python-(.+)$
> 
> This is guesswork, except for Debian for which I know the naming
> policy[1]. Since I'm posting to the list, can people from other
> distributions please check their own python module naming policies and
> let me know if those regexps need to be fixed[2]?


Mandriva/Mageia has as policy everybody language module must be name
LANGUAGE-MODULE (eg perl-foo-bar, python-foo, haskell-foo).

So your current regexp is ok, and can be reused for all hight level
langages.

Regards.

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Olivier Thauvin
CNRS  -  LATMOS
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