On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 12:46 AM, Adam Williamson
<adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-09-02 at 12:44 +0200, 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.
>
> Please be careful with such 'fixes'. Some specs are also built for EPEL
> 6; in EPEL 6, some of these (e.g. python-argparse) are still separate
> packages.
>
> I kind of agree with Neal / Kevin that removing these is pointless and
> unnecessary. Now I will have to conditionalize my affected specs
> somehow in order to keep using them to do builds both for EPEL 6 (where
> I *must* include Requires: python-argparse) and Rawhide (where I now
> *cannot* include Requires: python-argparse)...which is a pain.
Python stack is derived too much from EL to Fedora. Just maintain 2
different specs. Even EL7 is always painful since you have to do
%if 0%{?rhel} && 0%{?rhel} <= 7
BuildRequires: python-setuptools
%else
BuildRequires: python2-setuptools
%endif
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