BuildRequires on obsoleted packages provided by Python
Hello all, While checking out the SPEC file of python, it seems there were some packages that, while separate at some point, they got included in python's stdlib and then obsoleted as standalone packages (thus to cope with the change, python was obsoleting these packages and providing them as well in the SPEC). So every package that currently (Build)Requires any of these packages will essentially drag python with it. I will remove these provides soon, since the packages were orphaned long time ago, but the packages that still require them, will need to be fixed and (Build)Require python instead. Here is a github commit with these changes from a testing repo: https://github.com/fedora-python/python2-spec/commit/dfdd96e653d65ce68359553b378104fec260589c And a list of the provided packages and the affected ones Distutils: None python-sqlite: cas yum python-ctypes: drobo-utils glusterfs-extra-xlators glusterfs-geo-replication python-smbios python-hashlib: pyrpkg python-uuid: dpm-server-mysql oz python2-celery python-argparse: R2spec catkin diskimage-builder euca2ools fedora-review feedstail gfal2-util glacier-cli grin hash-slinger imagefactory instack libstoragemgmt nordugrid-arc-nagios-plugins os-apply-config os-cloud-confic os-collect-confic os-net-config pyrpkg python-amqpclt python-catkin_pkg python-catkin_tools python-cloudservers python-gear python-novaclient python-postman python-requestbuilder python-rosdistro python-rospkg python-sparklines python2-oslo-config repo_manager rpkg vdsm Depending on feedback here I will follow (or not) the mass bug filling procedure so maintainer fix their packages. The reasoning behind this change, at the current time, is that I intent to rename python to python2 soon, which will lead to a re-review of python, so at the moment trying to have things as clear and consistent as possible. Plans for that change is only for rawhide (although it would be nice for f25 as well). Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Associate Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat ___ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Re: BuildRequires on obsoleted packages provided by Python
And a clarification here: The plan for renaming python is only for rawhide, while removing the Obsoletes/Provides might as well go in F25 as well, depending on the time frame that maintainers will be able to fix their packages. Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Associate Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat - Original Message - From: "Charalampos Stratakis" To: "Development discussions related to Fedora" Cc: "Fedora Python SIG" Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2016 2:10:25 PM Subject: BuildRequires on obsoleted packages provided by Python Hello all, While checking out the SPEC file of python, it seems there were some packages that, while separate at some point, they got included in python's stdlib and then obsoleted as standalone packages (thus to cope with the change, python was obsoleting these packages and providing them as well in the SPEC). So every package that currently (Build)Requires any of these packages will essentially drag python with it. I will remove these provides soon, since the packages were orphaned long time ago, but the packages that still require them, will need to be fixed and (Build)Require python instead. Here is a github commit with these changes from a testing repo: https://github.com/fedora-python/python2-spec/commit/dfdd96e653d65ce68359553b378104fec260589c And a list of the provided packages and the affected ones Distutils: None python-sqlite: cas yum python-ctypes: drobo-utils glusterfs-extra-xlators glusterfs-geo-replication python-smbios python-hashlib: pyrpkg python-uuid: dpm-server-mysql oz python2-celery python-argparse: R2spec catkin diskimage-builder euca2ools fedora-review feedstail gfal2-util glacier-cli grin hash-slinger imagefactory instack libstoragemgmt nordugrid-arc-nagios-plugins os-apply-config os-cloud-confic os-collect-confic os-net-config pyrpkg python-amqpclt python-catkin_pkg python-catkin_tools python-cloudservers python-gear python-novaclient python-postman python-requestbuilder python-rosdistro python-rospkg python-sparklines python2-oslo-config repo_manager rpkg vdsm Depending on feedback here I will follow (or not) the mass bug filling procedure so maintainer fix their packages. The reasoning behind this change, at the current time, is that I intent to rename python to python2 soon, which will lead to a re-review of python, so at the moment trying to have things as clear and consistent as possible. Plans for that change is only for rawhide (although it would be nice for f25 as well). Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Associate Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat ___ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org ___ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Python profile guided optimizations
Hello again, An new feature that I am currently working on for python is the profile-guided-optimization. Upstream: https://bugs.python.org/issue24915 Original bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=613046 Copr repo with builds: dnf copr enable cstratak/python-profiled-optimizations Supposedly it speeds up the python interpreter's performance by ~20%, however it would require some testing to figure out if that is indeed the case for the python rpm, and some tweaking might be required. It would be great if I could get some help from someone who is involved python's benchmarking. Planning first to try this with Python 3 and then also maybe Python 2. I'll rework the builds at copr later and I'll post a github repo as well with the proposed changes. Charalampos Stratakis Associate Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat ___ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
Renaming python to python2
Hello Python-SIG, Currently I am working on some ideas regarding the python package. Nothing is too concrete yet, however the technical side should be fairly simple. The first thing is renaming python to python2. Currently the python packaging guidelines, suggest that we use the python_provides macro, for both python2 and python3 subpackages of whatever python module someone might be packaging. The macro for python3 subacpakages, currently, does nothing however sometime in the future it would be great if everything could switch to python 3. When this is done we can flip the switch in the macros and the python3 subpackage will also provide the python- namespace, meaning essentially that when we speak about python we talk about python3, and the python binary will be a symlink to python3. In order to slowly start the procedure, a first step would be to rename the python package to python2. Here is a github repo with the current work so far: https://github.com/fedora-python/python2-spec/tree/py2rename Would love to hear some feedback on that. Regards, Charalampos Stratakis Associate Software Engineer Python Maintenance Team, Red Hat ___ python-devel mailing list python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
