Re: Intent to request a FESCo exception for python2 for ardour5

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Il giorno dom, 15/03/2020 alle 14.44 +0100, Fabio Valentini ha scritto:
> On Sun, Mar 15, 2020 at 2:37 PM Alexander Bokovoy <
> abokovoy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On su, 15 maalis 2020, Guido Aulisi wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > I’m going to ask a FESCo exception for python2 for package
> > > ardour5.
> > > Python2 is only needed to build the package using the WAF build
> > > system.
> > > 
> > > Ardour has been undergoing a complete rewriting for 2 years, no
> > > stable versions have been released in the last 2 years,
> > > so we are stuck with ardour 5.12, which still uses python2 to
> > > build.
> > > 
> > > What do you think about that?
> 
> (snip)
> 
> > Just package git master in Rawhide. It has been migrated to waf
> > 2.0.19
> > two months ago and builds just fine in Fedora 32 environments with
> > Python 3 only.
It's not considered ready for production by the developers, yet.

> I think FESCo would agree to temporarily continue building it with
> python2, given that upstream has already worked on supporting
> building
> with python3 eventually. At least, I would approve such an exception
> request (and other, similar requests for firefox, chromium, etc. have
> already been approved).
Thank you, I will make the request ASAP.

> But, if you think a current git snapshot would be an appropriate
> target for packaging, that solves the problem as well (I don't know
> how stable their development branch is).
AFAIK it's currently in alpha stage, I would wait for the next GIT tag.

Ciao
Guido
FAS: tartina

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