On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 09:13:12PM +0100, Jochen Schmitt wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 12:35:00PM -0700, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > > > 1) Does providing python-3.4 mean that 3.4 will be the only python every > > provided by EPEL? > > On Fedora ew have a python package which points to the 2.7 series and a > python3 package which points to the 3.3 series of python. I think we > should take this solution for EPEL because I think that python-2.7.x is > the standard python version which should not been overriden. > > > 2) If it doesn't then how are upgrades from 3.4 to 3.5 to 3.6 going to be > > handled? > > I think we need a conservative update handling to avoid incompatibilities > caused due an python update. > We could also take the python2.6 package in EPEL5 as inspiration here and ship a python3.4. This would allow us to ship a python3.5, python3.6, etc set of packages in the future.
-Toshio
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