There are already some bugzillas open for some of the packages, e.g.: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1249129 Of course I could prepare the patches and ask a proven packager for a rebuild, but maybe that would be too invasive so I want to get some feedback first on what could be the best course of action in this case. Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Associate Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stephen Gallagher" <sgallagh@xxxxxxxxxx> To: devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, September 2, 2016 12:56:30 PM Subject: Re: BuildRequires on obsoleted packages provided by Python On 09/02/2016 06:44 AM, Kalev Lember wrote: > On 08/31/2016 02:10 PM, Charalampos Stratakis wrote: >> 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. > > My suggestion would be to request provenpackager access and just fix all > those packages yourself in rawhide. If you file bugs, these are probably > going to take quite a bit of time to get fixed and you won't be able to > drop the compatibility provides for several Fedora releases. > Or just prep the patches and ask a provenpackager to apply them for you, which is probably faster than getting access yourself. -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
