Multirelease effort: Moving to Python 3

Andrew McNabb amcnabb at mcnabbs.org
Fri Jul 19 03:56:20 UTC 2013


On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:24:22AM -0400, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> 
> From packaging point of view, this will probably require:
> 1) Renaming python package to python2
> 2) Renaming python3 package to python
> 3) Switching the %{?with_python3} conditionals in specfiles to %{?with_python2} (we will probably create a script to automate this, at least partially)

Renaming the python package to python2 kind of makes sense, but renaming
the python3 package to python seems needlessly confusing.  Wouldn't it
make sense to just keep python2 and python3 side by side without
ambiguity until some long future date when python2 disappears?


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