Mass package change (python2- binary package renaming)

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On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:

> Hello Fedora Python package maintainers!
> 
> This is an announcement of a mass package renaming:
> Python 2 binary packages will be renamed to python2-*.

> List 1. for those packages which will be taken care of by the mass remaining
>    Patches: https://in.waw.pl/~zbyszek/fedora/pyrename/

Looking at a sample patch file, it apperas that more than a 
simple 
	s/python-/python2-/g 
replacement is being done [1]

The patch in question also contains 'tampering' with the 
%description stanza:

-%description
-ATpy is a high-level Python package providing a way to manipulate tables of 
-astronomical data in a uniform way. It provides built-in support for NumPy
-recarrays and common astronomical file/database formats (FITS, VO, HDF5, 
+%global _description\
+ATpy is a high-level Python package providing a way to manipulate tables of\
+astronomical data in a uniform way. It provides built-in support for NumPy\
+recarrays and common astronomical file/database formats (FITS, VO, HDF5,\
 and ASCII tables) with a very simple API.
 
+%description %_description
+

... this does not seem 'low risk', as substitutions happen 
form many fields.  It is also not mentioned in your post

Who shall be expected to repair FTB's after the patch?

-- Russ herrold

1. https://in.waw.pl/~zbyszek/fedora/pyrename/ATpy.spec.patch
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