= Proposed Self Contained Change: Enabling Python Generators = https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/EnablingPythonGenerators Change owner(s): * Igor Gnatenko <ignatenkobrain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,> * Neal Gompa <ngompa13@xxxxxxxxx> This change enables the ability to choose to use the Python module dependency generator for packages that provide Python Egg/Wheel metadata. == Detailed Description == There is RPM dependency generator which is able to automatically add Requires/Provides and other types of dependencies based on egg/wheel metadata. The part which is generating Provides has been used in Fedora since Jun 2016 which means by now all packages which provide egg/wheel metadata have Provides: pythonX.Ydist(xyz) added automatically. With this change proposal we allow people to opt-in for using automatic generation of Requires. All dependencies which are added are generated out of metadata which means in order to fix them - you need to fix metadata (usually setup.py or requirements.txt). Other distributions (such as Mageia, OpenMandriva, and PLD) have been using this dependency generator for long time already. In F29 we plan to propose to make generator opt-out. == Scope == * Proposal owners: Add macros to python-rpm-macros package which enables dependency generator. * Other developers: Packagers are advised to replace their hand-crafted list of dependencies on python libraries with simple macros. * Release engineering: #7276: https://pagure.io/releng/issue/7276 * List of deliverables: N/A (not a System Wide Change) * Policies and guidelines: Packaging:Python Guidelines need to reference how to turn on the feature (simple variable override). #740: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/740 . * Trademark approval: N/A (not needed for this Change) -- Jan Kuřík Platform & Fedora Program Manager Red Hat Czech s.r.o., Purkynova 99/71, 612 45 Brno, Czech Republic _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
