Renaming python to python2

2016-08-31 Thread Charalampos Stratakis
Hello Python-SIG, Currently I am working on some ideas regarding the python package. Nothing is too concrete yet, however the technical side should be fairly simple. The first thing is renaming python to python2. Currently the python packaging guidelines, suggest that we use the python_provide

Python profile guided optimizations

2016-08-31 Thread Charalampos Stratakis
Hello again, An new feature that I am currently working on for python is the profile-guided-optimization. Upstream: https://bugs.python.org/issue24915 Original bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613046 Copr repo with builds: dnf copr enable cstratak/python-profiled-optimizatio

Re: BuildRequires on obsoleted packages provided by Python

2016-08-31 Thread Charalampos Stratakis
And a clarification here: The plan for renaming python is only for rawhide, while removing the Obsoletes/Provides might as well go in F25 as well, depending on the time frame that maintainers will be able to fix their packages. Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Associate Software Engineer Python

BuildRequires on obsoleted packages provided by Python

2016-08-31 Thread Charalampos Stratakis
Hello all, While checking out the SPEC file of python, it seems there were some packages that, while separate at some point, they got included in python's stdlib and then obsoleted as standalone packages (thus to cope with the change, python was obsoleting these packages and providing them as w