Re: python package naming when upstream is inconsistent

[Thomas Klausner <wiz%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Wed, Jun 15, 2022 at 06:14:25PM -0400, Greg Troxel wrote:
> 
> I just packaged
> 
>   https://pypi.org/project/collections-extended/
> 
> which provides a python module
> 
>   collections_extended
> 
> and I named the package
> 
>   py-collections_extended
> 
> assuming that the PKGNAME should match the module name.  However, the
> DISTNAME and PKGNAME are py-collections-extended, not matching PKGPATH.
> 
> 
> This seems like an upstream misfeature, but maybe this is normal in
> Python.
> 
> 
> I am guessing I should change PKGPATH to devel/py-collections (by "cvs
> mv" :-).  But I thought I should ask the python experts first.

Yes.

Please match the PKGNAME on what pypi recommends for "pip install", in
this case

pip install collections-extended

i.e. py-collections-extended.

Thanks,
 Thomas