I'm not sure I understand your question.  This proposal is about
python36 packages, not the existing python34 packages or hypothetical
python38 packages.  In any case, packages shouldn't be requiring
python* directly.  They automatically get a requirement on
`python(abi) = X.Y` that serves this purpose.

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 4:57 AM Andrew C Aitchison
<and...@aitchison.me.uk> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, 21 Jan 2021, Carl George wrote:
>
> > RHEL7 ships Python 3.6 packages using the python3 prefix.  Currently
> > EPEL7 contains Python 3.6 packages using both the python3 and python36
> > prefixes.  Thanks to the foresight and preparation work of the Red Hat
> > Python Maintenance team, these work interchangeably when using the
> > %python_provide macro.  However the situation is still confusing for
> > packagers and users.  We never formalized guidelines on which prefix
> > to use.  I would like to change that.  I propose that we standardize
> > on the python3 prefix to match RHEL7 packages and document in EPEL
> > guidelines that maintainers SHOULD use the python3 prefix.
>
> Do we need to be explicit about how we spell any value of these keys
> - e.g. should it be
>    Requires: python >= 38
> or
>    Requires: python >= 3.8
> ?
>
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