Re: Question about Python 2 (sub-)package removal in Fedora

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On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:37:12AM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> On 07. 03. 19 9:33, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 07, 2019 at 09:15:23AM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> >>On 07. 03. 19 9:11, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> >>>
> >>>Related to:
> >>>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal
> >>>
> >>>I have some packages which build python 2 subpackages, but they are
> >>>not "python packages" as such.  One example is nbdkit:
> >>>
> >>>   https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1225638
> >>>
> >>>This package isn't listed in
> >>>https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal/List
> >>>I don't know how that list was constructed, whether this was missed by
> >>>accident, or design.
> >>
> >>Only Python 2 modules (i.e. stuff that installs into
> >>/usr/lib(64)?/python2.7) were detected. Yours seem to be like some
> >>sort of plugins.
> >
> >Another one would be python2-libguestfs which does install files in
> >/usr/lib64/python2.7 and is present in the list, but wasn't removed by
> >anyone nor was a bug filed against it AFAICS.  Anyway I can deal with
> >this one too.
> 
> 
> I get this on the latest compose from February:
> 
> $ dnf repoquery --repo=rawhide --repo=rawhide-source --whatrequires
> python2-libguestfs
> imagefactory-0:1.1.11-2.fc30.noarch
> kimchi-0:1.5.1-11.fc30.noarch
> oz-0:0.16.0-8.fc30.noarch
> vdsm-hook-fileinject-0:4.18.999-447.git0bb7717.fc28.noarch
> 
> While I'd like to get rid of as much Python 2 packages as possible,
> I'd advise not to remove packages that are being dependent upon
> (unless properly communicated with the maintainers of the dependent
> packages).

OK I see, thanks.

Rich.

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