macros.python2 requires update in F21+

[Haïkel]

Hi,

Nobody answered, should I assume that everyone is ok with me pushing
Orion's patches in F21 and F22?

Regards,
H.

2015-09-08 12:26 UTC+02:00, Haïkel <hguemar at fedoraproject.org>:
> Hi,
>
> Recently, we had a lot of issues with openstack packages due to python
> newer guidelines.
> To fix upgrade path for python2 modules, you had to obsolete previous
> python-xxx module.
> Orion committed a fix in rawhide in the macro %python_provides that
> fixes that issue.
>
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/python.git/commit/?id=7fdb9bedcda48894b7ba85e34ca5722b28b69076
> http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/python.git/commit/?id=cb9dd734593c52b84f0b9b6f19f352001c1d50d3
>
> Could we backport these in F21/22/23 ?
> It's rather critical, as we have less experienced packagers pushing
> updates without checking
> the upgrade path or provides/obsoletes. Having a reliable
> %python_macros as in rawhide makes it more
> robust and will avoid breaking users dependencies
>
> I prefer that python maintainers do the update as it's a critical
> package, but I don't mind doing it in their stead
> if you approve this (if necessary)
>
>
> Regards,
> H.
>