Re: Python 2 Package Removal and when to use fedora-obsolete-packages

2018-09-13 Thread Jason L Tibbitts III
> "ZJ" == Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek writes: ZJ> Heh, I don't think the FPC policy is very robust. It's as robust as is reasonable to implement. When fedora-obsolete-packages was introduced, there was considerable controversy over whether it is remotely acceptable to remove installed packa

Re: DNF: "There are following alternatives to this package"

2018-09-13 Thread Tomas Orsava
On 09/13/2018 06:43 PM, Mathieu Bridon wrote: On Thu, 2018-09-13 at 18:17 +0200, Tomas Orsava wrote: We'd like to propose a new functionality for dnf: When a user tries to install a package XYZ and dnf doesn't find it, dnf would recommend them alternative packages. These offered packages would a

DNF: "There are following alternatives to this package"

2018-09-13 Thread Tomas Orsava
Hi! We'd like to propose a new functionality for dnf: When a user tries to install a package XYZ and dnf doesn't find it, dnf would recommend them alternative packages. These offered packages would advertise that they are an alternative for XYZ using a specially formatted Provides tag. For ex

Re: No more automagic Python bytecompilation: I'll mass push to your packages

2018-09-13 Thread Scott Talbert
On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Miro Hrončok wrote: Hello. In line with https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/No_more_automagic_Python_bytecompil ation_phase_2 I plan to mass push the following 3 lines on the top of your package spec: I updated my packages to set _python_bytecompile_extra to 0, but

Re: No more automagic Python bytecompilation: I'll mass push to your packages

2018-09-13 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 13.9.2018 05:27, Scott Talbert wrote: On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, Miro Hrončok wrote: Hello. In line with https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/No_more_automagic_Python_bytecompil ation_phase_2 I plan to mass push the following 3 lines on the top of your package spec: I updated my packages