Minor change to with_python3 conditions in specfiles

[David Malcolm]

On Tue, 2012-07-31 at 08:39 -0700, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> 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.
Well, so would I :(

http://jnovy.fedorapeople.org/scl-utils/ is one possibility

In the meantime, I've opened:
  https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/200