[Distutils] How can we handle package renaming?

[Daniel Holth]

The last release of the old package should depend on the new.

We also have an "obsoleted by" key in the new metadata iirc.
On May 20, 2014 8:29 PM, "Richard Jones" <r1chardj0n3s at gmail.com> wrote:

> I occasionally receive requests from package maintainers asking to
> have their PyPI package renamed (for example, renaming
> "eyepea_monitoring_agent" to "tanto"). The only response I have at the
> moment is to tell them to release their package under both the new and
> old names in parallel, and promote only the new name, as the PyPI name
> must match the name defined in setup.py.
>
> I'd like to open up discussion to ideas about how to handle this better.
>
> Somewhat related would be *perhaps* allowing a package named "Pillow"
> to be installed when a requirement requests "PIL" via some kind of
> aliasing mechanism.
>
>
>      Richard
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