Minor change to with_python3 conditions in specfiles

[Toshio Kuratomi]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 11:29:02AM -0400, David Malcolm wrote:
> For python packages that build python 2 and 3 subpackages from one
> shared src.rpm, the current example on
>   http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Example_spec_file
> has this fragment:
>   %if 0%{?fedora} > 12 || 0%{?rhel} > 6
>   %global with_python3 1
>   ...snip...
> which was written with the assumption that RHEL 7 onwards will have
> Python 3 packaged in the same way as we do in Fedora.
> 
> However, over the long lifetime of a RHEL release there will be multiple
> upstream Python 3 releases, so RH is thinking of handling Python 3 in
> RHEL 7 in a different way to how Fedora does it, to better support the
> possibility of multiple Python 3 stacks - though exactly how it's to be
> done in RHEL 7 isn't fleshed out yet.
> 
> Coming back to Fedora, the above means that I'd like to change the above
> to omit the "rhel" clause, so that it reads:
> 
>   %if 0%{?fedora} > 12
>   %global with_python3 1
> 
> and to make equivalent changes throughout the specfiles in Fedora, so
> that such dual src.rpms aren't dual src.rpms in the RHEL context, only
> in Fedora.
> 
Tentative +1.... It'll need to go to the full FPC.  I think that they will
say that since it's RHEL/EPEL and not Fedora the change is fine.  But they'd
be a lot more comfortable (specifically with the changing of existing
packages) if they knew what the RHEL method is going to look like.

-Toshio
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