Thanks! On Sun, Aug 27, 2023 at 5:39 AM Sandro <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 27-08-2023 06:33, Globe Trotter via devel wrote: > > I am the maintainer of python-PyPDF2 for Fedora (which I do since I > > was interested in pdf-stapler that I also maintain as a consequence). > > For a while now, upstream has been wanting all PyPDF2 users to pypdf. > > I was wondering how I go about this for the F38 repos. Do I need to > > go through packaging again, or is there an easier way to update > > python3-PyPDF2 to python3-pypdf? If so, what do I have to do? > > Could you provide some links to the upstream sources of PyPDF2 and > pypdf? And me be also to the issue where the switch from PyPDF2 to pypdf > is discussed. I understand that the pypdf maintainer is the same as that of PyPDF2 and says here that: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/34837707/how-to-extract-text-from-a-pdf-file that PyPDF2 and PyPDF3 and PyPDF4 packages are not maintained. > I'm assuming PyPDF2 and pypdf are separate packages. In that case you > would need to submit pypdf as a new package. Once pdf-stapler is built > against pypdf you can retire PyPDF2 if no other package depends on it. The above search indicates they are, and that there is a pypdf3. > If pypdf is a rename of PyPDF2 you'd submit a re-review of the package > and you need to take care of proper Provides: and Obsoletes: in the new > package. See the docs for more info: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Package_Renaming_Process/ > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/#renaming-or-replacing-existing-packages > Thanks, simply renaming and obsoleting seems to me to be a better option, and I will look into that. Thanks again! _______________________________________________ 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 Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
