file's SPEC creates a 'python-magic' sub-package accessible via 'import magic'. The problem is that there is another python module[1] with that name, which can be installed via 'easy_install python-magic'[2], causing a namespace conflict. I guess file should probably rename the sub-package to something else. [1] http://github.com/ahupp/python-magic [2] http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-magic
This has to be discussed with upstream. I will send email to File mailing list to find out what to do with that...
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According to fresh discussion on the File mailing list it looks those two bindings will be merged together and maintained by author of python-magic from Pypi. Just renaming the package won't help, because both projects provides module with the same name and the same Python class. This bug is more question for File upstream developers than for me as File package maintainer.
I'm not sure there's any progress here. Upstream knows about it and there were some intentions to merge those two Python bindings together. I'm not sure I as Fedora File maintainer can do anything more with that... It's up to upstream to decide or to care. I'm closing this bug as CLOSED UPSTREAM.