>>> On 11/10/2016 09:42 PM, Barry Scott 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.
>>>
>>
>> Import error here.
>>
>>  File "/root/code/rpkg/pyrpkg/__init__.py", line 14, in <module>
>>    import git
>>  File "/root/rpkg-env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/git/__init__.py", line 38, 
>> in <module>
>>    from git.config import GitConfigParser  # @NoMove @IgnorePep8
>>  File "/root/rpkg-env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/git/config.py", line 25, 
>> in <module>
>>    from git.util import LockFile
>>  File "/root/rpkg-env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/git/util.py", line 18, in 
>> <module>
>>    from unittest.case import SkipTest
>> ImportError: No module named case
>>
>> GitPython >= 2 cannot work with Python 2.6 at all.
>
> So on a system where you want to use rpkg with python 2.6 use GitPython 1.
>
> But that is no reason to stop updating GitPython 2 for Fedora 24 where python 
> 2.7
> Is used for rpkg right?

If the API is the same between the releases I don't see why it
wouldn't be OK, presumably the reason why is tha

>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Barry
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>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Chenxiong Qi
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