On Tue, 22 Jan 2019 at 15:06, Miro Hrončok <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 18. 11. 18 1:21, Orion Poplawski wrote: > > On 11/15/18 10:08 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote: > >> I missed this in the last meeting from items that needed to be voted on. > >> > >> The changes would be to make epel macros to have > >> > >> > >> %python3_pkgversion 36 > >> %python3_other_pkgversion 34 > >> > >> This should allow for the build system to rebuild python3 items as > >> default. Then we will need a tracking ticket and bump/rebuild the > >> packages > > > > Be aware that this will cause many current python34-* packages to > disappear the > > next time they are rebuilt for EPEL7. > > This was the plan from the beginning and as long as we inform all the > interested > parties (read: maintainers of such packages, users), we shall be good. > > EPEL "officials" need to decide whether to do it now, or align the change > with > the next RHEL 7.x release. As a Python Maintainer in Fedora and RHEL, I > can say > that we would very much like to see this happen and preferably sooner than > later > . We would like to add Python 3.6 to RHEL 7, but at this point we cannot > make > any promises. If we add it, it will most likely own /usr/bin/python3 and > %__python3 will in all likelihood point to 3.6. We want to avoid as much > breakage in EPEL as possible. > > I would like to work with you this week if you are in Brno. I am wanting to see if we can do this first in a copr to show what will happen and then put in a flag day for it before that possible problem occurs. > Proposal: > > * We change macros.python3 [1] to 3.6. > * We change macros.python3_other [2] to 3.4. > * We rename the package to python-rpm-epel-macros (or whatever is the > name > convention) and the subpackages to python-srpm-epel-macros etc. In case > python-rpm-macros comes to RHEL proper. Once (if) it does, we remove > macros.python3 from the EPEL package. > * We put this to all the announcement channels EPEL has. > > Caveat: If a packager needs to rebuild their package without changing the > Python > version, they need to invert the macros. This information needs to be part > of > the announcement. > > > [1] > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-rpm-macros/blob/epel7/f/macros.python3 > [2] > > https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-rpm-macros/blob/epel7/f/macros.python3_other > > -- > Miro Hrončok > -- > Phone: +420777974800 > IRC: mhroncok > _______________________________________________ > epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] > -- Stephen J Smoogen.
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