Hi everyone, I’m the maintainer of odtwriter, a Python library which enhances docutils. It provides a docutils.writers.odtwriter module to make docutils capable of writing OpenDocument Text files. For the user, though, the /usr/bin/rst2odt script is the primary interface. The binary package is currently called python-odtwriter; after a discussion in February 2008 [1], I decided to stick with this name. Justified alternatives include the pedantically policy-correct “python-docutils-writers-odtwriter”, the compromise “python-docutils-odtwriter”, or even “rst2odt”, which would better suit most end-users. Adding to this, of course I could also ship /usr/bin/rst2odt in its own package apart from the Python module, but given the tininess of this stuff, I don’t really want to. In the meantime, docutils-writer-manpage entered the archive (Ben Finney). It obviously uses a completely different naming scheme and provides a small rst2man binary package which only contains the frontend. And then there is rst2pdf (Chris Lamb) which does the all-in-one thing in a single eponymous .deb. Since I care about consistency, I’d like to get this sorted out. My personal preference would be “python-docutils-X”: it’s short, reasonably precise and explanatory. How do you think these packages should be called? Any input is welcome, even if it’s just “it doesn’t matter.” [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.debian.devel.bugs.rc/174522/focus=367728 Cheers, -- Michael Schutte <michi@uiae.at>
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