pydist-overrides ignores package names with hyphens

[Erica Windisch]

This is a bug that has already been found and fixed in Debian. I have verified this bug exists in Quantal (python-defaults 2.7.3-0ubuntu7). Because Ubuntu's package is not based on Debian's, this fix has not made it into Ubuntu releases.

Here is a copy of the Debian bug report:

From: Vangelis Koukis <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Cc: <email address hidden>
Subject: dh_python2 ignores package names with hyphens in
 debian/pydist-overrides
Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2012 21:51:19 +0200
Package: python
Version: 2.6.6-3+squeeze6
Severity: normal
Tags: patch

Hello,

dh_python2 parses debian/pydist-overrides incorrectly and ignores
lines referring to packages with hyphens in their names, which seem to be
totally valid names for python distributions, e.g.,

http://pypi.python.org/pypi/evasion-common/1.0.1
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ls-thrift-py-hadoop/1-cdh3u2

So the following line:

My-package python-mypackage

is ignored.

Also see,
http://docs.python.org/distutils/examples.html#pure-python-distribution-by-module

which mentions the hyphen as an acceptable character:
"However, the distribution name is used to generate filenames, so you
should stick to letters, digits, underscores, and hyphens."

The problem seems to be with the definition of PYDIST_RE
in python-defaults-{2.6.6,2.7.2}/debpython/pydist.py:

PYDIST_RE = re.compile(r"""
    (?P<name>[A-Za-z][A-Za-z0-9_.]*) # Python distribution name

in which the name group is not allowed to contain hyphens.

Adding '\-' in the last bracket expression seems to be a fix for
the problem.

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=657665

[Erica Windisch (ewindisch)]

Likely fixed in Raring as that package is based on a newer Debian package.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

quantal has seen the end of its life and is no longer receiving any updates. Marking the quantal task for this ticket as "Won't Fix".