On Thu, Jun 29, 2017 at 2:39 AM, Adam Williamson <adamw...@fedoraproject.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2017-06-28 at 16:21 +0200, Iryna Shcherbina wrote: >> 2) Using `python-` instead of `python2-` in the dependencies for the >> Python 2 binary RPM [2]. > > I'm not sure this list is terribly useful, because of the above. There > are thousands of packages that do this, because the 'python2-' provide > is not available on some older Fedora release, or on EPEL (and the > package is maintained for EPEL as well as Fedora). Sprinkling "if (some > release number condition) then Requires: python2-foo else Requires: > python-foo" all over your spec is a giant PITA and I for one am not > very interested in doing it. > > IMHO, if there is going to be some kind of requirement that all Python > requires be explicitly versioned, there needs to be a co-ordinated > effort to make sure the versioned Provides are available across at > least EL6, EL7, and all supported Fedora releases *first*.
I completely agree with Adam's sentiment here and think this is a giant waste of time for a little bit of vanity. It's prone to errors. I've seen and fixed numerous issues where maintainers just blanket change/build/push without doing proper provides/obsoletes and break things on stable releases and EL. Most packagers have enough problems with workload without piling on a bunch of extra unnecessary vanity bollocks that provides absolutely ZERO value. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
