On 23 March 2016 at 05:14, Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2016-03-22 at 21:23 -0700, Dave Johansen wrote: >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1313796 >> This request to include a Python 3 subpackage for breathe made me realize >> that I probably should have named the package python-breathe instead of >> breathe. Is that correct? If so, what's the right way to fix this? > > The name of the .src.rpm isn't really super important and changing it > is a bit of a pain (you have to do a package rename request which is > more or less like going through package review again). However, it > *would* be good to follow the latest Python binary package naming > recommendations, which are to have 'python2-breathe' and 'python3- > breathe' and use the python_provides macro so that right now the > python2-breathe package will provide 'python-breathe', but that can > potentially change in future (that's what the macro is meant to take > care of). > > The example spec in https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python is > really what all python specs should look like, ideally. The only > wrinkle is if you want to build your package for EPEL, especially EPEL > 6; a lot of the recommended macros don't exist there so you will either > have to maintain that branch separately in git, or have a bunch of > conditionals in the spec to handle the missing macros for EPEL 6. If you do want to push ahead with a package rename, cc me on the bugzilla ticket, and I'll happily review it for you. The package rename process is described here: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Package_Renaming_Process Cheers, Jonathan. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
