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authorHartmut Goebel <h.goebel@crazy-compilers.com>2016-05-29 19:05:40 +0200
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2016-06-01 23:02:04 +0200
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doc: Update specification for Python packages
* doc/guix.texi (Python Packages): Add rule for packages with upstream
  name starting with "py".

Signed-off-by: Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>
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@@ -11113,7 +11113,9 @@ packages with the corresponding names.
 
 If a project already contains the word @code{python}, we drop this;
 for instance, the module python-dateutil is packaged under the names
-@code{python-dateutil} and @code{python2-dateutil}.
+@code{python-dateutil} and @code{python2-dateutil}.  If the project name
+starts with @code{py} (e.g. @code{pytz}), we keep it and prefix it as
+described above.
 
 
 @node Perl Modules