On Friday, August 2, 2019 8:15:24 AM EDT Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 02. 08. 19 5:21, Steve Grubb wrote: > > On Thursday, August 1, 2019 6:37:47 PM EDT Miro Hrončok wrote: > >> On 01. 08. 19 23:44, Steve Grubb wrote: > >>> 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. > >> > >> How does this Fedora impact other distributions? > > > > Because eventually we all (distros) have to go through it. So, if > > autotools handled this gracefully, I and everyone else would have a > > configure.ac file and Makefile.am that just does the right thing. So, I > > am faced with making an announcement on my project's mail list that > > maintainer on other distros have to do this hack because autotools is > > incapable of doing the right thing. There is no migration plan for > > autotools. We could have got in front of this and helped make it smooth. > > > > My package is now built in rawhide thanks to your patch. Fedora is OK. I > > just worry about bug reports rolling in on other distros upstream. > > I've talked to my friend at SUSE, who I know is much better with autotools > than me and also knows Python. He expressed one thing that I think is > worth mentioning here: > > There is no point to "fix" AM_PATH_PYTHON to search for Python 2 only, > introducing AM_PATH_PYTHON3 etc. just for the remaining 5 months of Python > 2 lifetime. Sure. I can understand that python2 is coming to an end. However, audit installs and runs fine on very old versions of Linux. As soon as I make it require only recent kernels/environments, I'll start getting issues opened asking to fix the breakage. > Instead, please focus on getting rid of python2-audit (required by > audit-viewer This ^^^ should go end of life asap. > and python2-policycoreutils (that is required only by > dokuwiki-selinux and vdsm (broken since Fedora 28))). I'd love to quit building the python2 extensions. I can't drop them any time soon upstream. There must be other upstream developers that have these same issues/concerns. -Steve _______________________________________________ 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
