On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 07:18:31AM -0500, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote: > ----- Original Message ----- > > Dne 4.12.2013 12:37, Bohuslav Kabrda napsal(a): > > > (tkinter is actually a subpackage of python itself) > > > > I guess you know what I mean here, but to be clear: > > > > tkinter is only an example, we got more, like pyserial, PyYAML... > > Oh, I see. Some time ago, FPC has accepted a change that says, that packages > with "py" in name should be prefixed with "python-" anyway [1]. Since this > only applies to newly created packages, we will have to cope with this, > unfortunately. So my idea of handling this would be: > - all packages must have Provides: python-* > - packages that weren't prefixed with "python-" previously (pyserial, > PyYAML), should also carry an explicit Provides/Obsoletes for the old name. > Sounds good? > I would remove that first bullet point. The point of the Provides and Obsoletes is to provide backwards compatibility. If there's no previous python-* there's no need to take up that name in the namespace.
> > Other thing: > > > > What about apps? Do we want something in the guidelines that would say: > > > > If the app clearly works with both Python 2 and Python 3, > > then the Fedora package is obligated to use Python 3 instead > > of Python 2. > > > > If however the app only works with one of them, obviously, > > Fedora package uses and requires that one. > > > > Or do we keep that on the packager's decision? > > Toshio already proposed a guidelines solution for this [2], but now that > I look at it, it seems that it never got proposed to FPC. Toshio, will you > propose that or should I? I guess we can do this regardless of the change > I'm proposing now. > > [2] > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/python-devel/2013-November/000528.html > Please do. I haven't got a whole lot of time these days :-( -Toshio
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