python-sig and retiring python3-dateutil

[Bohuslav Kabrda]

----- Original Message -----

> Pete Travis < me at petetravis.com > schrieb am Mon Jan 26 2015 at 5:24:32 PM:

> > On 01/26/2015 08:53 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> 
> > > Hi,
> 
> > >
> 
> > > since bug #1126521 seems to be progressing nicely, I think it would be
> 
> > > nice to get in touch with python-sig, the maintainers of
> 
> > > python3-dateutil, about retiring python3-dateutil and adding a python3
> 
> > > subpackage to python-dateutil. They might want to do it the other way
> 
> > > around, which would be fine too, but either way, something should be
> 
> > > arranged.
> 
> > >
> 
> > > I tried to sign up for the python-sig mailing list, but it is
> 
> > > "private" and I haven't received any welcome letter, so I think I'm
> 
> > > stuck in some moderation queue.
> 
> > >
> 
> > > Zbyszek
> 

> > Yes, I think it's a good time to bring up retiring python3-dateutil.
> 
> > I've also requested membership for that list, and included the list
> 
> > owners here, maybe they can expedite our requests.
> 

> As python-dateutil is not (yet) under the python-sig group maintainership
> [1], you could reach the maintainers of python-dateutil under ther -owner
> mail address (CC'ed).
> python-sig at fp.o is for all group maintained package maintainers and general
> python related questions are handled on python-devel at fp.o (also CC'ed).
> (Sorry for the confusion, the python-sig groupmaintainership started very
> recently and is still a work in process.)

> I'd say it depends, how python3 will be introduced in F22, which package
> should provide the subpackage and the other one should be retired.
> Maybe someone from [2] could comment on what they like to see in the future.
> I don't mind having two separate packages until we approach F22 and the
> future process is here.

> Greetings,
> Tom

> [1] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/python-dateutil/
> [2] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Python_3_as_Default

Packaging Python extension modules should keep working the way it did up until F21. python-dateutil will still be the Python2 build, python3-datetuil will still be the Python3 build. There are some guidelines changes that I proposed for F22 [1], but I think they don't influence dateutil. 

Slavek 

[1] https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/475#comment:5 
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