Hi Zach, I think it is best to remove the .spec file if it is not supported by Python developers.It is misleading to ship unsupported file within source tree. Thanks for reply.
From: Zachary Ware <zachary.ware+py...@gmail.com> To: "python-dev@python.org" <python-dev@python.org> Cc: Blaxton <blaxx...@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, February 16, 2015 11:54 PM Subject: Re: [Python-Dev] Python 3.4 RPM on AIX On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 10:50 PM, Blaxton <blaxx...@yahoo.com.dmarc.invalid> wrote: > I am using the spec file that comes with Python source code which downloaded > from python.org website > source file is set on spec file to file with bz2 format while there is only > .xz and zipped are available to download. > > > I thought somehow some one from development team has wrote that .spec file > and maybe supporting it. > > This is like no support. The spec file in Misc/RPM has not been maintained in quite some time; the last change to that file that wasn't just a version bump was one [1] whose commit message was "#5776: fix mistakes in python specfile. (Nobody probably uses it anyway.)" and was committed four and a half years ago. It's not unlikely that you're the first person to use the file since then :). We should probably just remove the file, but if you manage to get it working and would like to provide a patch on bugs.python.org, it would probably be accepted. [1] https://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/ef75ecd0e1a7 -- Zach
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