Barry

> On 10 Nov 2016, at 15:21, Chenxiong Qi <c...@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 
>> On 11/10/2016 09:42 PM, Barry Scott wrote:
>> In this bug
>> 
>>    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1360797
>> 
>> It is implied that rpkg has an unspecified problem with GitPython 2.0.
>> 
>> This is preventing the maintainer from updating to the any GitPython 2
>> release.
>> 
>> I'd like to know if there is in fact a problem with rpkg with GitPython 2.0.
>> 
> 
> Import error here.
> 
>  File "/root/code/rpkg/pyrpkg/__init__.py", line 14, in <module>
>    import git
>  File "/root/rpkg-env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/git/__init__.py", line 38, 
> in <module>
>    from git.config import GitConfigParser  # @NoMove @IgnorePep8
>  File "/root/rpkg-env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/git/config.py", line 25, in 
> <module>
>    from git.util import LockFile
>  File "/root/rpkg-env/lib/python2.6/site-packages/git/util.py", line 18, in 
> <module>
>    from unittest.case import SkipTest
> ImportError: No module named case
> 
> GitPython >= 2 cannot work with Python 2.6 at all.

So on a system where you want to use rpkg with python 2.6 use GitPython 1.

But that is no reason to stop updating GitPython 2 for Fedora 24 where python 
2.7
Is used for rpkg right?

Barry


> 
>> If there is a problem it would be nice if the rpkg people could comment on 
>> the
>> difficult of supporting GitPython 2. The python2.6 support question I suspect
>> can be handled by version checking in any conflicting code.
>> 
>> It seems wrong that rpkg is blocking updating to the latest GitPython,
>> preventing user of GitPython getting the bugs fixes and (as far as I am 
>> aware)
>> backwards compatible improvements.
>> 
>> Barry
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> 
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