Spec URL: http://fedorapeople.org/~danielsmw/odfpy07/odfpy07.spec SRPM URL: http://fedorapeople.org/~danielsmw/odfpy07/odfpy07-0.7-3.fc10.src.rpm Description: A compat package for odfpy. This package was created and submitted to fix a bug with mw-render, which requires odfpy 0.7. I should also note that this is my first package, and I'd need a sponsor before I could actually get this in the repositories.
The naming convention (I've not seen a guideline for this) appears to be to have compatibility packages be named compat-%{name} (or, more rarely, %{name}-compat). e.g. compat-db*, compat-gcc-*, compat-python24*. How about compat-odfpy07?
The only guideline I was really going off of there was from the Naming Guidelines' example [1] about openssl and openssl096b. I'd be happy to change it to compat-odfpy07 if that's the convention. I'll upload a new SPEC/SRPM file as soon as I get the chance to make the edit. [1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines#Multiple_packages_with_the_same_base_name
The naming is fine. Since there's no compile step in python, the compat-$FOO vs $FOO$VER naming is a little mixed. I think $FOO$VER is better unless we're putting the module in some sort of private directory.
So, before we do this, has anyone tried submitting a port to odfpy0.8 for python-mwlibs upstream? That's really the right thing to do. (I'll add a patch to the python-mwlibs bug now).
Do we want to close this since mwlibs has been ported to the new odfpy?
This package became irrelevant when Ian Weller updated mw-render anyway, so I'm closing the bug request.