Re: fedora-review prints "Package contains BR: python2-devel or python3-devel"

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On Thu, 2017-05-25 at 11:54 +0100, Tom Hughes wrote:
> On 25/05/17 11:46, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 11:17:21AM +0100, Sérgio Basto wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2017-05-25 at 10:36 +0100, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > > fedora-review prints this in the ‘Issues’ section of the
> > > > report:
> > > > 
> > > >    ‘- Package contains BR: python2-devel or python3-devel’
> > > > 
> > > > This has happened on a couple of reviews I have done
> > > > recently.  There
> > > > is no other information given about what this means or why it's
> > > > bad.
> > > > 
> > > > Both were Python packages and the Python package guidelines
> > > > mention
> > > > that you *should* have BR: python2-devel / python3-devel
> > > > (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#BuildRequires)
> > > > 
> > > > So .. what does it mean?
> > > 
> > > https://pagure.io/FedoraReview/issue/273
> > > 
> > > (...) Message should say , IMHO, "do not use BR: python-devel use
> > > instead BR: python2-devel or python3-devel " . It clarifies what
> > > is the
> > > problem.
> > 
> > Fair enough, although in both of my cases ‘BR: python-devel’ was
> > _not_
> > being used.

Okay, maybe I misinterpreted the result I got. Anyway we could
use ticket 273 [1] to clarify what that message means and fix it, I got
the same problem .

[1] https://pagure.io/FedoraReview/issue/273

> Yes that suggested text is no better really.
> 
> The test is checking that either python2-devel or python3-devel is
> being 
> required - it doesn't consider python-devel at all so mentioning that
> in 
> the message would be very misleading.
> 
> So it will error unless python2-devel or python3-devel is required
> but 
> the message is phrased in terms of what is expected rather than what
> is 
> actually present - so it's not saying the package contains X rather
> it 
> is saying the package should contain X (and doesn't).
> 
> Tom
> 
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