I've been asked to split the python-systemd out of the main systemd tree. This is the set of python modules which wrap libsystemd. They were originally started as a separate project by David Strauss. By splitting them out we return to the origins. In systemd we also use python to build parts of documentation, and in tests. That use doesn't change.
The new separated package is at https://github.com/systemd/python-systemd and the pull request for removal from systemd is at https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/501 . The removal should be merged after the next release, to give a bit of time for distributions to create the new package. The motivation for the change is that building python modules requires additional dependencies (python headers and sphinx), which were not used otherwise. Distributions also had to build systemd twice, once for Python 2 and once for Python 3. python-systemd mostly uses the public API of libsystemd anyway, so splitting it out does not require duplicating any significant functionality. Following the example of libudev, I bumped the version of the separated package to 230, so that it is guaranteed to stay larger than the last version of systemd still containing python-systemd. Distributions will have to add a new package. For Fedora this is almost done (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1240113). Comments, patches, pull requests — especially for documentation and tests — are very much welcome. Zbyszek _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
