----- Original Message -----
> From: "Florian Weimer" <fwei...@redhat.com>
> To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" 
> <devel@lists.fedoraproject.org>, "Charalampos Stratakis"
> <cstra...@redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, January 9, 2018 12:30:39 PM
> Subject: Re: F28 System Wide Change: Removal of Sun RPC Interfaces From glibc
> 
> On 01/09/2018 11:32 AM, Charalampos Stratakis wrote:
> > Python is currently being addressed upstream [0] and the fix will be
> > backported soon to fedora's packages.
> > 
> > [0]https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/5137
> 
> Has this been tested on OpenSUSE or Gentoo (I think either has already
> fully made the transition)?
> 
> I'm asking we still have some NIS bits sticking around, and we need to
> remove° them as well for the transition to an IPv6-capable NIS.
> 
> ° As usual, we'll keep support existing binaries.
> 
> Thanks,
> Florian
> 

It seems that there was a previous bug report about the same issue for gentoo 
[0][1].

Python doesn't actually fail to build, it's that it utilizes those headers to 
build a specific module (which is not really used nowadays).

And upstream is in favor of deprecating the module that requires those headers.

[0] https://bugs.python.org/issue32007
[1] https://bugs.gentoo.org/631488

-- 
Regards,

Charalampos Stratakis
Software Engineer
Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat
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