Matching package names across distributions

[Tarek Ziadé]

On Wed, Feb 2, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Michael Scherer <misc at zarb.org> wrote:
..
>> Now, if a package does not follow the convention, does each packaging
>> system keep the original name of the Python project somewhere ?
>
> You can get the name of the tarball from the src.rpm.
> And the url from the src.rpm and the binary one.

Cool, so I guess it means it would be possible to find out what's the
name of that PyPI project in Fedora for example, by doing a request on
the RPM repository

>
>> If so, how hard would it be to fetch this information ?
>
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