https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1648728



--- Comment #10 from Petr Viktorin <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) from comment #9)
> Sure, but in either case once we decide what upstream to follow, we'll have
> to request upstreams of whatever packages to switch to it. 

Yes.
If one is clearly better than the other, it shouldn't be an issue, right?


> Would it be possible to ask the python-progressbar upstream to retire it,
> and add a notice requesting people to move to the newer one, which appears
> to have more features and is better maintained?

IMO it would be better to merge with the fork, since "progressbar" is clearly a
better name than "progressbar2".

> If this cannot be sorted at an upstream level, the downstream resorts will
> be to make the two conflict, or we carry downstream patches for lots of
> software to make the two installable not conflict. (Neither of these are
> attractive to me).

Exactly.

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