On Sun, Dec 17, 2017 at 3:16 PM Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek < zbys...@in.waw.pl> wrote:
> Dear fellow Fedora developers, > > I plan to execute part 2 of the renaming. First part was announced and > discussed here [1]. Recently, Iryna Shcherbina announced [2] plans for > a follow up: changing the requirements. Before that happens I want to > finish my renaming. In this round my changes are rather small, only > ~80 packages, see the lists below. There's various packages which either > are not on the porting-db list [3], or are particularly complicated [4], > or have been fixed in git but don't build, all of which I'm ignoring > for now. > > Short description: > binary Python2 subpackages with a name starting with "python-" or > ending with "-python" will be renamed to "python2-…". Provides/Obsoletes > for the old name are of course added, so upgrades should work and other > packages using the old names do not need to be adjusted. > > In the first round, packages which had Requires/Provides under > conditionals were skipped. In this round the renamer script [5] was > improved to support such cases. > > Timeline: > If nothing pops up, I'll push the changes and to the rebuilds on Friday. > > This timeline is a bit concerning. Friday marks the start of the lowest maintainer activity each year. A huge subset of the Fedora community goes away to enjoy their winter holidays. I think pushing a mass-packaging change on this schedule would be a really bad idea. It *will* result in breakage. I'd suggest postponing the change until January 2nd.
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