Deal with pip setup.py name and rpm packaging

Hello,

  recently I started to develop a tool in python.
I discovered pip and setuptool with setup.py. It's fantastic! I can provide packaging  to pypi and to rpm all in a row.
I follow these guidelines:
- https://packaging.python.org/tutorials/packaging-projects/#generating-distribution-archives
- https://docs.python.org/3/distutils/builtdist.html?highlight=rpm
- https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Python/

With %{?python_enable_dependency_generator} the RPM provides the dependecies itself. Fantastic!

But how to force the developers to use consistent names? :D

For instance these python-magic and redis client packages:

  https://pypi.org/project/python-magic
  https://pypi.org/project/redis/

use names which conflict with already existent rpm packages names. In particular, "redis" in rpm is the name of the Redis server package! If I make "bdist_rpm" of python Redis client and I "yum install" the package I damage my system deleting the Redis server!
The Redis client developer says that he can't change the name because this will break existent installations:
https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py/pull/385

I think this is not a good situation. Python environment should help to improve an "inconsistent" setup.

As a result, I have to make bdist_rpm of the dependencies, then I have to install the source rpm, change the name in SPEC file and rebuild the rpm package. In my package I can't use %{?python_enable_dependency_generator}, because it uses the fault pypi names, I have to provide them myself. :(

Thank you for reading this noise
Have a fantastic python day

  Marco
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