Greetings All, In the past the Packaging Guidelines have recommended packagers of python files include the .py and .pyc files directly in the package and %ghost the .pyo files. In a recent discussion on fedora-extras-list[1]_ two problems were found with this. 1) When a .pyo file is not included on the filesystem and a user runs python -O [APP] SELinux will log an AVC Denial into audit.log. From the discussion it seems SELinux rules cannot be adapted to not log this as expected behaviour without also filtering out other behaviour that may not be so benign. 2) If a system administrator runs a python application at the second optimization level (python -OO [APP]) they will create .pyo files that do not have docstrings. Certain applications might break when this happens. Rerunning python at the first optimization level won't overwrite the .pyo file so the application would remain broken until the pyos were manually removed. To solve this, the recommendations for Python Packages are being updated to include .pyos directly and not attempt to %ghost them. [1]_: https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-extras-list/2006-August/msg00208.html This message is both to inform packagers of guidelines changes that they should follow in the future and to allow for discussion if someone knows of a reason this change is not desirable. Thank you, Toshio
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