Plan to deprecate pytz in Fedora 35+

2021-02-18 Thread Miro Hrončok
Hello Pythonistas, We (me and Gwyn) plan to deprecate pytz in Fedora 35+: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecatePytz The change is not submitted yet because of missing content in this section: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecatePytz#How_to_migrate_to_the_standard_library

Re: Plan to deprecate pytz in Fedora 35+

2021-02-18 Thread Felix Schwarz
Hi Miro, I can understand the desire to remove pytz and I have to mention that I don't have any specific upstream feedback. However certbot/babel do support pretty old versions of Python. Adding a separate code path for Python 3.x+ might be a pretty tough sell and might contribute to the "le

Re: Plan to deprecate pytz in Fedora 35+

2021-02-18 Thread Miro Hrončok
On 18. 02. 21 17:16, Felix Schwarz wrote: Hi Miro, I can understand the desire to remove pytz and I have to mention that I don't have any specific upstream feedback. However certbot/babel do support pretty old versions of Python. Adding a separate code path for Python 3.x+ might be a pretty

HEADS UP: Python dist RPM generators switched from "pkg_resources" to "packaging"

2021-02-18 Thread Miro Hrončok
Hello Pythonistas, We have just shipped a medium size implementation chanage of Python dist RPM generators (the thing that automatically generates python3.Xdist(...) / python3dist(...) requires and provides). Details: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-rpm-generators/pull-request/30 W

Re: Plan to deprecate pytz in Fedora 35+

2021-02-18 Thread Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 05:39:30PM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote: > On 18. 02. 21 17:16, Felix Schwarz wrote: > >Hi Miro, > > > >I can understand the desire to remove pytz and I have to mention > >that I don't have any specific upstream feedback. > > > >However certbot/babel do support pretty old versi