Re: The default buildroot no longer contains python/python3

[Petr Šabata]

On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 02:19:43PM +0100, Igor Gnatenko wrote:
>  On Mon, 2017-01-16 at 13:13 +0100, Petr Šabata wrote:
>  > Let it be known that due to certain packaging changes implemented
>  > in December, neither python nor python3 are automatically pulled
>  > into the default, minimal buildroot anymore.
>  I have to note that for python3 it's not really true, since rpm-build
>  "depends" (one of depgens require functionality to work[0]) on python3-
>  setuptools.
>  
>  Hopefully at some point it will be moved to something like python-
>  generators (like we did with perl). 
Well, that's disappointing.

Since we would really, really like to drop python3 from Base Runtime, finding
some other [easy] solution would be preferred.  Hmmm.

P

>  > 
>  > This negatively affects packages the require python/python3 at
>  > build time but do not explicitly say so, causing FTBFS issues.
>  > This will manifest itself during the upcoming mass rebuild,
>  > at the latest.
>  > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/26/Schedule
>  > 
>  > If your package is affected, make sure you declare your build
>  > dependencies correctly and add anything that's missing.
>  > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines#BuildRequires_2
>  > 
>  > See https://pagure.io/fesco/issue/1660 for some background on this.
>  > 
>  > Cheers,
>  > P
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>  [0] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1410631
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>  -Igor Gnatenko