python-setuptools update in F20

Toshio Kuratomi a.badger at gmail.com
Thu Nov 7 21:42:19 UTC 2013


On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 12:44 PM, Toshio Kuratomi <a.badger at gmail.com> wrote:
> A new setuptools upstream release (1.2) was made last week that adds support for
> subversion 1.7 and 1.8.  Subversion 1.7 shipped in Fedora 19 so the
> subversion support in setuptools is currently broken in both F19 and F20.
> Unless there's objections I'm definitely going to update setuptools in F20.
> I'm quite hesitant about updating in F19 due to potential incompatibilities.
> In particular, pip, buildout, and virtualenv would likely all need to update
> (these were things that we found had minimum versions to work with the F20
> setuptools package as per:
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_setuptools_0.7
> )
>
> Backwards incompatible changes were introduced between 0.9.8 and 1.0:
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/setuptools#id145 but these changes are unlikely
> to affect any code that's currently in the wild.
>
> Please speak now if you don't want this update to hit F20 or do want the
> update to hit F19.  My plan is to update the python-setuptools package in
> F20 to 1.3 near the end of this week.
>
This update has now been submitted:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/python-setuptools-1.3.1-1.fc20


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