On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 10:17:34PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 04:08:35PM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 09, 2017 at 04:48:42PM +0100, Daniel P. Berrange wrote: > > > On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 10:14:26PM +0000, 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-*. > > > > > > > > This will happen soon after the F27 branching on August 15th. > > > > > > > > > > > > Currently ~1330 source packages already generate a binary package with > > > > the python2- prefix, and 835 remain to be updated. The spec files for > > > > approximately 740 packages will be renamed, and 95 will be left for > > > > fixing by maintainers or proven packagers. > > > > > > > > > > > > At the end of this e-mail are two lists of maintainers and packages: > > > > > > > > List 1. for those packages which will be taken care of by the mass remaining > > > > Patches: https://in.waw.pl/~zbyszek/fedora/pyrename/ > > > > > > > > Maintainers don't have to do anything. > > > > > > > Example: > > > > +%package -n python2-atpy > > > > +Summary: %summary > > > > +Requires: numpy python-astropy > > > > +%{?python_provide:%python_provide python2-atpy} > > > > +# Remove before F30 > > > > +Provides: ATpy = %{version}-%{release} > > > > > > This looks incomplete & broken to me. > > > > > > The Provides satisfies any dependancies on the old name, but you're > > > missing an Obsoletes to tell RPM the upgrade path. Trying to installing > > > the new python2-libvirt RPM on an existing system fails because it > > > clashes with libvirt-python. > > Good catch. Obsoletes: python-libvirt is generated by %python_provide, > > but I forgot to add Obsoletes: libvirt-python. > > Thanks, I'll fix this and other packages in the same situation. > I added that. New patches are in https://in.waw.pl/~zbyszek/fedora/pyrename/. > > This new Obsoletes is generated with %{_isa}, and I also added > %{_isa} to the matching Provides. > > Zbyszek > > > > A further flaw in your script is that its changed libvirt-python to > > > python2-libvirt, but not changed libvirt-python3 to python3-libvirt, > > > so the naming inconsistency is worse than before your proposed change. > > Yeah, that was a conscious decision. In the draft I sent to fedora-devel > > last week I asked if python3 subpackages should be renamed, but nobody > > answered, so I assumed that people don't care that much either way. > > My motivation for not touching this right now was to limit the number > > of changes and potential for screwups. IMHO, introducing this inconsistency between py2 and py3 package naming is really awful. I'm going to change the libvirt-python package myself because I don't want such inconsistency, so please don't run your script against it Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
