Hello all, While checking out the SPEC file of python, it seems there were some packages that, while separate at some point, they got included in python's stdlib and then obsoleted as standalone packages (thus to cope with the change, python was obsoleting these packages and providing them as well in the SPEC). So every package that currently (Build)Requires any of these packages will essentially drag python with it. I will remove these provides soon, since the packages were orphaned long time ago, but the packages that still require them, will need to be fixed and (Build)Require python instead. Here is a github commit with these changes from a testing repo: https://github.com/fedora-python/python2-spec/commit/dfdd96e653d65ce68359553b378104fec260589c And a list of the provided packages and the affected ones Distutils: None python-sqlite: cas yum python-ctypes: drobo-utils glusterfs-extra-xlators glusterfs-geo-replication python-smbios python-hashlib: pyrpkg python-uuid: dpm-server-mysql oz python2-celery python-argparse: R2spec catkin diskimage-builder euca2ools fedora-review feedstail gfal2-util glacier-cli grin hash-slinger imagefactory instack libstoragemgmt nordugrid-arc-nagios-plugins os-apply-config os-cloud-confic os-collect-confic os-net-config pyrpkg python-amqpclt python-catkin_pkg python-catkin_tools python-cloudservers python-gear python-novaclient python-postman python-requestbuilder python-rosdistro python-rospkg python-sparklines python2-oslo-config repo_manager rpkg vdsm Depending on feedback here I will follow (or not) the mass bug filling procedure so maintainer fix their packages. The reasoning behind this change, at the current time, is that I intent to rename python to python2 soon, which will lead to a re-review of python, so at the moment trying to have things as clear and consistent as possible. Plans for that change is only for rawhide (although it would be nice for f25 as well). Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Associate Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
