[PATCHES] Generate shorter name for extra python files

[Alexander Bokovoy]

On ke, 16 elo 2017, Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical wrote:
> On Tue, 2017-08-15 at 14:22 +0200, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:
> > On (22/07/17 13:43), Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical wrote:
> > > On Fri, 2017-07-21 at 15:46 +0200, Stefan Metzmacher via samba-
> > > technical wrote:
> > > > Hi Lukas,
> > > > 
> > > > > > as this will take a bit to discuss, I'll prepare new talloc,
> > > > > > tevent
> > > > > > and ldb releases without this.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > We need an ldb release for 4.7.0rc3 which is planed for next
> > > > > > Tuesday.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > 
> > > > > I thought I answer all questions and Abrew wrote that:
> > > > > "(in that respect, I've not done a full review)"
> > > > > 
> > > > > I am not sure how to move this forward. Or where is a problem.
> > > > > But I would really appreciate solution which works for upstream
> > > > > and all downstream debian, fedora ...
> > > > 
> > > > It's just time, some people are/will be on vacation, so it takes
> > > > a bit
> > > > of time to have a solid solution.
> > > > 
> > > > We should not rush this into the release on Thursday. There will
> > > > be at least 1 or 2 rc's before 4.7.0.
> > > > 
> > > > But the most important thing is that we should not add a solution
> > > > to ldb-1.2.1, which we than have to revert for ldb-1.2.2.
> > > 
> > > I agree, we need to get this right.  Skipping it for rc3 should be
> > > fine.
> > > 
> > 
> > And we skipped rc4 as well. But I hope it is still possible
> > to get patches to final 4.7.0 :-)
> 
> Perhaps.  Sadly we are all busy, but this is still our aim.  Is there a
> particular need for this in 4.7?
It sets Python module names for a release. Changing them later would be a bad
practice. Even though they aren't like sonames, they still better to be
fixed in advance.

I could give my RB+ but I thought there is a benefit from having it all
vetted by a wider community.


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/ Alexander Bokovoy