On Thu, 2017-06-29 at 16:50 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote: > > > > > > "AW" == Adam Williamson <adamwill@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > AW> Right, that's a good point. *Why* exactly do we want to go to all > AW> the trouble involved in making a switchover from 'python-foo' > AW> meaning 'the Python 2 module called foo' to meaning 'the Python 3 > AW> module called foo'? > > It's about users. Once "python" means python3 (which is a decision that > the python upstream will eventually make), a user should be getting a > python3 version when they type "dnf install python-foo". > > Packages should of course always specify the version and should never > use python-* for anything unless there is no alternative. (Which is the > what the current packaging guidelines state.) That seems like, frankly, quite a weak justification for all the trouble that's involved in migrating the 'meaning' of python-foo like this (and, as Smooge pointed out, potentially doing it *again* for Python 4, if it ever happens). -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
