Hello all,

While checking out the SPEC file of python, it seems there were some

Fyi, vdsm included in the list of packages buildrequiring orphaned packages on fedora ---------- Messaggio inoltrato ---------- Da: "Charalampos Stratakis" <cstratak@redhat.com> Data: 31/Ago/2016 02:11 PM Oggetto: BuildRequires on obsoleted packages provided by Python A: "Development discussions related to Fedora" < devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> Cc: "Fedora Python SIG" <python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org> 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/dfdd96e653d65ce68359553...

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 -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org