On Wed, 2015-01-28 at 11:09 -0500, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> Hi,
> I just filed 2 bugs [A], [B] for the Python 3 switch [C] and I realized that
> I should probably follow the mass bug filing policy.
> As I've said previously, we've already had both Python 2 and Python 3 on
> LiveCDs for few releases, so it makes sense to move as much as possible to
> Python 3. My intention is to mass file bugs only for "applications" (see the
> second item in second list at [D]) - in short, these are packages for which
> it doesn't make sense to introduce python3- subpackage, but it only makes
> sense to rebuild them with Python 3.
> The mass bug filing policy suggests providing text of the bug for review, so
> here it is:
>
>
> Since your package requires Python and is considered an application as per
> [1], I'd like to ask you to rebuild it with Python 3. Please see
> recommendations and notes at [2]. Note: this switch should only be done
> assuming you need to do none or very little downstream patching of upstream
> source. If upstream source doesn't work with Python 3, it's ok to stay with
> Python 2.
>
> Some general notes:
> If your package depends on Python because of a Python script that has
> /usr/bin/python in hashbang, you need to change this to /usr/bin/python3. All
> "Requires" and "BuildRequires" on Python extension modules have to be changed
> from "python-foo" to "python3-foo" in order for this change to work. If your
> package is an "application" (let's call it "foo") and it also generates a
> subpackage with Python bindings (i.e. "python-foo" or "foo-python"), you
> should provide a python3 subpackage ("python3-foo" or "foo-python3") and use
> that as dependency of other subpackages.
How about "#!/usr/bin/env python"? I don't recall who suggested this a
long time ago, but I'm 99% sure it was to better handle python3...
Dan
> [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default
> [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Guidelines
>
>
> If everyone agrees, I'll send a mail to devel-announce, saying that we're
> switching to Python 3 and all maintainers should rebuild with it, assuming
> that upstream sources are Python 3 compatible. After a week or so I'll file
> bugs for the remaining components. I haven't yet determined the number of
> affected packages, since I'm mostly interested in packages that are on
> LiveCD/cloud images - there are ~10 of these that don't have bugs filed.
>
> I'll wait a while before sending the mail to devel-announce so that everyone
> has time to comment on this.
>
> Thanks,
> Slavek
>
> [A] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186791
> [B] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1186792
> [C] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default
> [D] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default#Scope
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