On Thursday, August 1, 2019 4:37:01 AM EDT Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 01. 08. 19 4:43, Steve Grubb wrote: > > Audit. But is seems that autotools shoul hard code the old sematics so > > that all packages do the right thing. It seems that python3 equivalents > > have been introduced. They do the right thing with the python migration. > > But there are things that are expectd to defaulto python 2. > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/audit/pull-request/4 > > Autotools usually already does the right thing, aka choosing python2 if it > cannot find python. Using "python" in Fedora packages is forbidden anyway. I applied your patch. Thanks. But I am concerned that this is a bandaid because it patches the spec file and all distributions will have to do the same thing. -Steve > >>> Should they be hardcoded to mean python2 in autotools and swig? > >> > >> No. That was kinda the point of this change: "python" means Python 3. > >> > >> Python 2 is deprecated and will be retired. > > > > Of course. But there is a legacy pyexec_PYTHON and there is a > > py3exec_PYTHON. What this change means is that they are one in the same. > > I do not think that is the intention. Because...is there a > > py2exec_PYTHON? I do not find it grepping my system. And this would need > > to have been advanced years ago, not today. > > I don't know if there is py2exec_PYTHON. But autotools is no magic > (although it might appear as such), it just uses the commands available. > "python" command being forbidden in Fedora packages and "python" command > meaning Python 3 have been advocated for years. > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FinalizingFedoraSwitchtoPython3 > > I'm sorry if that made you packaging work more complicated. But I just > don't agree that we should make exceptions here. (Nevertheless I would > have no idea how to do that, since every project ships their own pile of > autotools that may or may not use the "python" command that way or > another). _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
