On 07. 08. 19 10:19, Panu Matilainen wrote:
On 8/7/19 10:48 AM, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> On 07. 08. 19 9:32, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>>
>> I'd like to drop the python2-rpm subpackage in Fedora 31.
>>
>> There are a handful of dependencies left for it still but these all appear
>> more or less dead upstream (and some even downstream), and will go down with
>> the great python2 flush soon anyway. Kobo is the exception but that has a
>> python3 counterpart already. Here's what repoquery --whatrequires python2-rpm
>> on rawhide gives today:
>>
>> ailurus-0:10.10.3-19.fc31.noarch
>> dmlite-shell-0:1.13.1-2.fc31.x86_64
>> firmware-tools-0:2.1.15-5.fc29.noarch
>
> FTBFS, should have been retired yesterday.
>
>> mach-0:1.0.4-10.fc31.i686
>> mach-0:1.0.4-10.fc31.x86_64
>> python2-kobo-rpmlib-0:0.10.0-2.fc31.noarch
>
> Drop announced, doesn't install. Will be dropped ~ 2019-08-15.
>
>> repo_manager-0:0.1.0-15.fc31.noarch
>> system-config-users-0:1.3.8-6.fc29.noarch
>
> FTBFS, should have been retired yesterday.
>
>> vdsm-0:4.18.999-447.git0bb7717.fc28.x86_64
>
> FTBFS, should have been retired yesterday.
Heh, remarkably unlucky timing then on my behalf.
>> I'd rather not maintain the python2 bindings for another release just because
>> a handful of apparently dead software depends on it.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>
> CC the maintainers, wait for them to not reply and do it:
>
>
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F31_Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal#...
>
Yup, read that.
Since the current dependencies are to go away on their own within a week or two,
I can wait that much for the road to clear itself up.
Note that ailurus and repo_manager are not going anywhere, unless you pitch in:
repo_manager:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1737845
ailurus has no open bug yet
dmlite-shell source package is FTBFS:
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/packageinfo?packageID=17470
But dmlite-shell package is also built from dmlite source package (?) and that
builds fine.
The thing is that an external maintainer for the python2 part
doesn't make sense
for rpm. Either the rpm-team maintains it 'till the mass remove or we drop it
now, anything else is just unwanted overhead. Hence the request for thoughts
rather than invite for others to maintain.
It's more a heads up than anything else, I doubt anyone else will maintain
python2-rpm. Although it is probably possible, as long as you keep support upstream.
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