On 18. 11. 18 1:21, Orion Poplawski wrote:
On 11/15/18 10:08 AM, Stephen John Smoogen wrote:
I missed this in the last meeting from items that needed to be voted on.

The changes would be to make epel macros to have


%python3_pkgversion 36
%python3_other_pkgversion 34

This should allow for the build system to rebuild python3 items as
default. Then we will need a tracking ticket and bump/rebuild the
packages

Be aware that this will cause many current python34-* packages to disappear the next time they are rebuilt for EPEL7.

This was the plan from the beginning and as long as we inform all the interested parties (read: maintainers of such packages, users), we shall be good.

EPEL "officials" need to decide whether to do it now, or align the change with the next RHEL 7.x release. As a Python Maintainer in Fedora and RHEL, I can say that we would very much like to see this happen and preferably sooner than later . We would like to add Python 3.6 to RHEL 7, but at this point we cannot make any promises. If we add it, it will most likely own /usr/bin/python3 and %__python3 will in all likelihood point to 3.6. We want to avoid as much breakage in EPEL as possible.

Proposal:

 * We change macros.python3 [1] to 3.6.
 * We change macros.python3_other [2] to 3.4.
* We rename the package to python-rpm-epel-macros (or whatever is the name convention) and the subpackages to python-srpm-epel-macros etc. In case python-rpm-macros comes to RHEL proper. Once (if) it does, we remove macros.python3 from the EPEL package.
  * We put this to all the announcement channels EPEL has.

Caveat: If a packager needs to rebuild their package without changing the Python version, they need to invert the macros. This information needs to be part of the announcement.


[1] 
https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-rpm-macros/blob/epel7/f/macros.python3
[2] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-rpm-macros/blob/epel7/f/macros.python3_other

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