Fails to guess package for python-cheetah

[James Westby]

Hi,

python-cheetah installs Cheetah-*-.egg-info, so I put "install_requires=["Cheetah"]" in setup.py.

When dh_python2 tries to guess the package name it uses "safe_name" before it puts it in the regex,
which calls lower() on the string.

This means that it doesn't find the Cheetah egg-info dir and so complains that the package
can't be found.

If it didn't call lower() it wouldn't be found. I don't know what the purpose of the lower
call is in a function called safe_name, and it says that it is taken from distribute, so
there may be a reason for it there.

Thanks,

James

[James Westby (james-w)]

distribute seems to have a safe_name function in pkg_resources.py

https://bitbucket.org/tarek/distribute/src/edd2f2c24b20/pkg_resources.py#cl-1130

but it doesn't call lower() and is different to debpython's anyway.

Thanks,

James