I'm not sure I understand your question. This proposal is about python36 packages, not the existing python34 packages or hypothetical python38 packages. In any case, packages shouldn't be requiring python* directly. They automatically get a requirement on `python(abi) = X.Y` that serves this purpose. On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 4:57 AM Andrew C Aitchison <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Jan 2021, Carl George wrote: > > > RHEL7 ships Python 3.6 packages using the python3 prefix. Currently > > EPEL7 contains Python 3.6 packages using both the python3 and python36 > > prefixes. Thanks to the foresight and preparation work of the Red Hat > > Python Maintenance team, these work interchangeably when using the > > %python_provide macro. However the situation is still confusing for > > packagers and users. We never formalized guidelines on which prefix > > to use. I would like to change that. I propose that we standardize > > on the python3 prefix to match RHEL7 packages and document in EPEL > > guidelines that maintainers SHOULD use the python3 prefix. > > Do we need to be explicit about how we spell any value of these keys > - e.g. should it be > Requires: python >= 38 > or > Requires: python >= 3.8 > ? > > -- > Andrew C. Aitchison Kendal, UK > andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Carl George _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to epel-devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/epel-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
