The three kinds of #Python packages:
1. Packages that replace dead packages and have names suffixed with a number: htmlmin2, progressbar2.
2. Packages that replace dead packages and their names are a variation of the original name: pytest-lazy-fixtures (for pytest-lazy-fixture), orderly-set (for ordered-set).
3. Packages that replace dead packages and have completely different names: veilchen (for bottle).
Extra points if you break backwards compatibility in the name of cosmetic changes ("I didn't like this function name"). And you get a jackpot if you keep the old module names while at it, so that you prevent the "old" being installed alongside "new".
#Gentoo
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