On Tue, Mar 24, 2020 at 04:12:29PM +0000, José Abílio Matos wrote: > On Tuesday, 24 March 2020 12.40.24 WET Miro Hrončok wrote: > > We would like ro rename the "python3" component (SRPM) to "python39" to > > make maintaining various Python versions in various Fedora versions > > easier. The names of binary RPMs would be unchanged; you still do `dnf > > install python3`. > > > > The change should only affect packagers of Python itself; not users or > > packagers of software written in Python. > > The only user-visible or general-packager-visible change is a different > > component (SRPM) name. > > That seems like a good idea. What about bugzilla? Will it follow the renaming? > That means that we need to know the python version (not difficult I admit) to > know the component where to submit the bug report. That's a good point.
Maybe it'd be useful to set up a periodic job to move any new bugs from python to pythonNN as appropriate for any given release. > What about the upgrade path? Will it be preserved. > Case: assume that I install python39 for F33. Then in F35 will it upgrade all > the python39* to python310*? Or will the python39 remain installed? The binary path only cares about binary package names, so it is unaffected by this change. > There is some work to be done here although IMHO I agree that it is worth. :-) Zbyszek _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list -- python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
