Matching package names across distributions

[Enrico Zini]

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]?


Ciao,

Enrico


[1] http://www.debian.org/doc/packaging-manuals/python-policy/ch-module_packages.html#s-package_names
[2] I also welcome regexps from other distributions of course:
    distromatch isn't really limited to only those four. I haven't yet
    actively tried to involve more[3] because I'd like to try some
    initial deployment first, in order to road-test the input data
    requirements.
[3] This is a lie: I have done some preliminary investigation on
    Gentoo, thanks to a friendly Gentoo developer who hangs out on
    #debian-it
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