On 08/31/2016 02:10 PM, Charalampos Stratakis wrote: > 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 well in the SPEC). So > every package that currently (Build)Requires any of these packages will > essentially drag python with it. > > I will remove these provides soon, since the packages were orphaned long time > ago, but the packages that still require them, will need to be fixed and > (Build)Require python instead.
My suggestion would be to request provenpackager access and just fix all those packages yourself in rawhide. If you file bugs, these are probably going to take quite a bit of time to get fixed and you won't be able to drop the compatibility provides for several Fedora releases. -- Kalev -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
