On Wed, Jun 19, 2019 at 6:05 AM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> We have an interesting request for python3-rpm-macros to depend on python3.
>
> See https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1563789
>
> Highlights:
>
>   - users who build for Python 3 are told (in the guidelines) to BR 
> python3-devel
>     (that brings in both python3 and python3-rpm-macros)
>   - the existence of python3-rpm-macros is left as an implementation detail 
> for ^
>   - in theory, those macros can be used with other Pythons
>     (such as pypy3 or python36, that is most likely not done in practice)
>
> Arguments:
>
>   - to require: the macros are broken without a python3 interpreter
>   - to not: the macros should work with any python3 interpreter
>
> Solutions?
>
>   - declare direct BR of macros without a python3 interpreter unsupported
>   - add dependency on python3. unused if used with another interpreter
>   - add a common virtual provide for all python3 interpreters
>     or require (python3 or pypy3 or python36...) - very tedious
>

Have we ever tried using it with pypy3? Does it even work with that
(that is, pypy3-foo packages can be made)? If it does, we should just
add a common virtual provide to supported interpreters and require
that. Else, just require python3.


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