Matching package names across distributions

[Michael Scherer]

Le mercredi 02 février 2011 à 18:17 +0100, Olivier Thauvin a écrit :
> * 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).

Well, not everybody follow the policy :/

( at least for python ).
And there is the case issue. 

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Michael Scherer