On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 09:07:54 -0500
Josh Boyer <jwbo...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:

> On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Barry Scott <ba...@barrys-emacs.org>
> wrote:
> > In this bug
> >
> >     https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1360797
> >
> > It is implied that rpkg has an unspecified problem with GitPython
> > 2.0.
> >
> > This is preventing the maintainer from updating to the any
> > GitPython 2 release.
> >
> > I'd like to know if there is in fact a problem with rpkg with
> > GitPython 2.0.
> >
> > If there is a problem it would be nice if the rpkg people could
> > comment on the difficult of supporting GitPython 2. The python2.6
> > support question I suspect can be handled by version checking in
> > any conflicting code.
> >
> > It seems wrong that rpkg is blocking updating to the latest
> > GitPython, preventing user of GitPython getting the bugs fixes and
> > (as far as I am aware) backwards compatible improvements.
> 
> Why does it seem wrong?

yep, a distribution is about compromises, but couldn't a compat
GitPython-1 package solve the problem, if both GitPython 1 and 2 can be
installed in parallel?


                Dan
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