On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 09:22:21AM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> That is trivial to deal with. There are many packages in fedora
which
> are renamed to meet packaging guidelines (e.g. many of the python-* or
> perl-* packages). I encourage you to submit it for review.
I am sorry I do not quite understand. I presume that you mean that one should rename
stapler (my packaged version) to something else. I tried doing this in the spec file. But
it never worked because the spec file looks for that something else then. I could not
figure out how to fix this so just created the file for my personal use.
If you or someone else would like to take a look, here it is:
fpaste pdf-stapler.spec
Uploading (2.4KiB)...
http://ur1.ca/kckv7 ->
http://paste.fedoraproject.org/221087/14400891
Just rename the tarball to the new name and you are good. The %{name}
macro takes the value from the Name: field in the spec file.
If I recall correctly, Fedora packaging guidelines says the package name
should be something like python-stapler.
> If you submit it, please post the BZ id here, I would like to
follow it.
> In the meantime, could you point me to the home page? I found this:
>
https://github.com/hellerbarde/stapler/tree/master, is this correct?
Yes this is correct.
I even wrote to the author Philip Stark asking if he would mind changing the name to
avoid conflicts with this other stapler. As an author and user of software, I feel that it
is useful to have clearly defined names. (Besides, the name "stapler" does not
quite do justice to the full capabilities of the software.) Anyway, he said he would if I
came up with a good name so I suggested a bunch, but he never responded after that.
Hmm, are you sure? The readme in the repo explicitly states that it is
a fork of the version written by Philip Stark, and this one is written
by Fred Wenzel.
Philip Stark decided to look for an alternative and found pypdf, a PDF
library written in pure Python. He couldn't find a tool which actually
used the library, so he started writing his own.
This version of stapler is Fred Wenzel's fork of the project, with a
completely refactored source code, tests, and added functionality.
Btw, you will need PyPDF2 for which I have a working rpm (again a
personal copy, no naming issues there) which I can provide to you.
How do I submit this PyPDF2 to BZ?
Just create a bug report as a review request.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Review_Process
Cheers,
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Suvayu
Open source is the future. It sets us free.