On 28 March 2016 at 09:00, Avram Lubkin <av...@rockhopper.net> wrote: > > So, a package I help maintain, python-dns is now provided by Red Hat. So I > thought, "OK, I'll still build the python34 package to help in that effort". > But the problem with that is, per the EPEL 7 in Python 3 Plan Draft (1), if > Red Hat provides the package, the SRPM can't use the same name. I can see > the merit there. The problem is that in Fedora, a SRPM name needs to match > the git repo name. So, yes, I could ask for a python3-dns package to be > setup, but that creates two problems. The first, keeping the EPEL-only repo > in sync with the main repo. The second, Differentiating between the python3 > package for Fedora which is in the python-dns git repo and the python3 > package for EPEL which, according to the guideline, would be in python3-dns. > > Ideally, I'd be able to maintain everything in the main git repo and use one > spec file cloned from master. That's not too difficult except the Fedora > build system won't build a package if it can't find the package (based on > the SRPM name) in the database. > > I don't see a clean solution which makes me very hesitant to preemptively > put out python34-dns for EPEL7. Which is part of the whole problem with > python34 on EL7, there are no packages. If you build it, they will come, > otherwise everyone stands around complaining it's not built. > > Am I missing something? >
You forgot the next corollary: If you build it, it will need to be rebuilt for python35/36/37 by the time you get to it. > Avram > > 1: > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Bkabrda/EPEL7_Python3#Packaging_Parallel_python3X_stacks > > > _______________________________________________ > python-devel mailing list > python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
