On Fri, Apr 06, 2018 at 11:18:13AM +0200, Petr Viktorin wrote: > On 04/04/18 18:21, James Hogarth wrote: > [...] > >Can we please get some consistency here? > > > >I noted today that firewalld has dropped python2-firewall but of > >course ansible isn't switching to py3 for the controller (and > >therefore local) until F29 and not all python modules are py3 > >compatible yet... and of course we ship firewalld as our firewall > >in fedora. > > > >This means that in F28 you can't just `yum install ansible > >python-firewall` and do ansible localhost -m firewalld and have it > >work. > > > >Worse is if you bump into a module not ported yet and then you > >have a split of python versions and playbooks required. > > Is there some list of packages Ansible depends on? > I'd can to add the list to portingdb, so we could warn people about > the implications of dropping subpackages. Currently we use RPM deps, > so the needs of Ansible clients are invisible. > > >Naturally there's no technical reason to drop the library in F28 > >and there's no Change filed for it. > > It's the maintainer's decision, as with any RPM. > Has anyone communicated to the firewalld maintainer that Ansible > depends on the package? Again, a maintainer can't very well notice a > "soft dependency", unless they use Ansible themselves.
I think it's just something that a maintainer should know — how users actually use the package they are maintaining. Removing a python subpackage should be handled similarly to any other removal, for example of an executable or certain functionality from an executable. Get a rough idea of what will be impacted, and reach out to users about the change. https://codesearch.debian.net/search?q=import+firewall immediately gives a list of packages that should be checked. I don't have an inkling where python-firewall would be used, but for packages that I maintain, I have at least a general idea, and then it's much easier to search. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
