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Add clarification of naming requirements for submocules (Closes: #701192)

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- Thanks to Peter Pentchev for the patch
* Drop unused build-depends on libhtml-tree-perl
* Clarify discussion of requirement to use python:Provides (Closes: #669346)
* Add clarification of naming requirements for submocules (Closes: #701192)
-- Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> Mon, 02 Jun 2014 19:54:25 +0200
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<name>Barry Warsaw</name>
<email>barry@debian.org</email>
</author>
<version>version 0.10.0</version>
<version>version 0.10.0.1</version>
<abstract>
This document describes the packaging of Python within the
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</item>
</enumlist></p>
<p>
Python 3 (3.1) was released in June 2009, and is available in
the Debian 6.0 (squeeze) release (3.1), and in the Debian 7
(wheezy) release (3.2).
</p>
</chapt>
<chapt id="python">
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multiple modules. In the latter case the maintainer chooses the
name of the module which represents the package the most.
For subpackages such as <var>foo.bar</var>, the recommendation is to
name the binary packages <package>python-<var>foo.bar</var></package>
and <package>python3-<var>foo.bar</var></package>.
Such a package should support the current Debian Python version,
and more if possible (there are several tools to help implement
this, see <ref id="packaging_tools">). For example, if Python 2.5,
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