Re: Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release

2018-04-12 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 12.4.2018 20:32, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: I am hear-by volunteer to support python27 in EPEL8 and EPEL6. It will be based off of the EL7 code. Thank you. For EPEL6, consult the guidelines on how to add such package. For the other EPEL you have mentioned, I unfortunately cannot say anyth

Re: Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release

2018-04-12 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 2:32 PM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > On 12 April 2018 at 11:48, Miro Hrončok wrote: >> On 11.4.2018 21:31, Kevin Kofler wrote: >>> >>> Miro Hrončok wrote: This is important for those who like to maintain a single spec for everything. Previously, there have

Re: Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release

2018-04-12 Thread Stephen John Smoogen
On 12 April 2018 at 11:48, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 11.4.2018 21:31, Kevin Kofler wrote: >> >> Miro Hrončok wrote: >>> >>> This is important for those who like to maintain a single spec for >>> everything. Previously, there have been messages on the devel list that >>> encouraged people to change

Re: Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release

2018-04-12 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 11.4.2018 21:26, Raphael Groner wrote: Hi Miro, what to do with packages that can not be ported to python3? If you are asking about next major RHEL release, I'm afraid I cannot tell. If you are asking about Fedora then there are two options: * somebody maintains python2 * we drop such p

Re: Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release

2018-04-12 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 11.4.2018 21:31, Kevin Kofler wrote: Miro Hrončok wrote: This is important for those who like to maintain a single spec for everything. Previously, there have been messages on the devel list that encouraged people to change the python3 conditional from "if fedora" to "if fedora or rhel > 7" [

Re: Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release

2018-04-11 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "RG" == Raphael Groner writes: RG> what to do with packages that can not be ported to python3? Can anything really not be ported to python3? I suppose if there was something which messed with the internals of the python interpreter in some way then that would potentially never be portable

Re: Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release

2018-04-11 Thread Kevin Kofler
Miro Hrončok wrote: > This is important for those who like to maintain a single spec for > everything. Previously, there have been messages on the devel list that > encouraged people to change the python3 conditional from "if fedora" to > "if fedora or rhel > 7" [5]. Please make a note that it will

Re: Python 2 will be replaced with Python 3 in the next RHEL major release

2018-04-11 Thread Raphael Groner
Hi Miro, what to do with packages that can not be ported to python3? For instance ecryptfs-utils … an orphan process will also orphan some dependencies like ecryptfs-simple etc. And therefore sirikali is going to loose some of its features that are available by help from ecryptfs tools. RFE ec