Hi Pythonistas and Fedora packagers.
Recently I've realized we bundle too much wheels with our pythons +
virtualenv package. That is unfortunate:
* we don't build those. stricly seeking, it's just a zip with python
files in it, yet this is not permitted in Fedora
* we only sometimes list it as Provides: bundled(...) and when we do,
it is tedious
* we never list bundled deps in those bundled wheels (pip bundles a lot)
* we never adapt the license tag to include license of bundled wheels
(and bundled deps in those) - it would be even more tedious, as pip
License tag can be very complicated
* we duplicate those across packages
I went ahead and prepared a concept in:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1605156
This is one package that builds all the required wheels. It might be a
bit weird that it's only one package, but I think it can lower the
maintenance burden. Also, we won't update any wheel package, we only add
or remove them, so there is no "life cycle". Later we can decide that
there are simply too many thing sin one package and split it).
This package makes sure the license tag is right and all the virtual
bundled provides are in place.
Even as one package, I think it's a big improvement comparing to current
state of things.
Could you please review the decisions made in the spec? Namely:
* naming (main package, subpackages)
* virtual provides
* that the spec is generated by a script and how that script works
* the method of usage described in the package review request
I've also decided not to run tests, as for them to mean something, we
would need to run them against all relevant Python versions. Also, it
would complicate the package a lot.
The package is approved thanks to Robert-André Mauchin, yet I won't
request the repo until it's settled that we want this.
Also, once we start using this, maybe we can stop doing rewheel and just
use wheels from here in the python3 package as well?
Thanks.
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Miro Hrončok
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