There are already some bugzillas open for some of the packages, e.g.: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249129
Of course I could prepare the patches and ask a proven packager for a rebuild, but maybe that would be too invasive so I want to get some feedback first on what could be the best course of action in this case. Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Associate Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Gallagher" <sgall...@redhat.com> To: devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 12:56:30 PM Subject: Re: BuildRequires on obsoleted packages provided by Python On 09/02/2016 06:44 AM, Kalev Lember wrote: > On 08/31/2016 02:10 PM, Charalampos Stratakis wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> While checking out the SPEC file of python, it seems there were some >> packages that, while separate at some point, they got included in python's >> stdlib and then obsoleted as standalone packages (thus to cope with the >> change, python was obsoleting these packages and providing them as well in >> the SPEC). So every package that currently (Build)Requires any of these >> packages will essentially drag python with it. >> >> I will remove these provides soon, since the packages were orphaned long >> time ago, but the packages that still require them, will need to be fixed >> and (Build)Require python instead. > > My suggestion would be to request provenpackager access and just fix all > those packages yourself in rawhide. If you file bugs, these are probably > going to take quite a bit of time to get fixed and you won't be able to > drop the compatibility provides for several Fedora releases. > Or just prep the patches and ask a provenpackager to apply them for you, which is probably faster than getting access yourself. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
