Matching package names across distributions

[Piotr Ożarowski]

[Piotr Ożarowski, 2011-02-02]
> * debian/pydist-overrides - used when maintainer of currently built
>   package wants to change what the helper proposes
> * /usr/share/python/dist/* files - with files
>   installed via Debian binary packages that need an override or when
>   maintainer wants to control the dependencies, f.e. when "Numpy >= 1.2"
>   is not enough for Debian because Numpy is changing ABI and Debian
>   maintainer wants to generate more strict dependencies in all packages
>   that use numpy (and rebuild them automatically after uploading new
>   python-numpy package)
> * /usr/share/python/dist_fallback generated by this¹ script
>   (with Python Package name → Debian binary package name mappings for
>   packages with weird names, see below)

oh, there's one more fallback step here:
* invoke dpkg -S and search for installed egg-info files (so it's enough
  to build depend on a package with wird name and dh_python{2,3} will
  generate the right dependency)

> * "python-%s" % PythonDistName.lower() for all other (sane) names
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