On Tue, 8 Aug 2017, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
Hello Fedora Python package maintainers!
This is an announcement of a mass package renaming:
Python 2 binary packages will be renamed to python2-*.
List 1. for those packages which will be taken care of by the mass
remaining
Patches:
https://in.waw.pl/~zbyszek/fedora/pyrename/
Looking at a sample patch file, it apperas that more than a
simple
s/python-/python2-/g
replacement is being done [1]
The patch in question also contains 'tampering' with the
%description stanza:
-%description
-ATpy is a high-level Python package providing a way to manipulate tables of
-astronomical data in a uniform way. It provides built-in support for NumPy
-recarrays and common astronomical file/database formats (FITS, VO, HDF5,
+%global _description\
+ATpy is a high-level Python package providing a way to manipulate tables of\
+astronomical data in a uniform way. It provides built-in support for NumPy\
+recarrays and common astronomical file/database formats (FITS, VO, HDF5,\
and ASCII tables) with a very simple API.
+%description %_description
+
... this does not seem 'low risk', as substitutions happen
form many fields. It is also not mentioned in your post
Who shall be expected to repair FTB's after the patch?
-- Russ herrold
1.
https://in.waw.pl/~zbyszek/fedora/pyrename/ATpy.spec.patch