Heads-up: python-shapely 2.0.1 coming to Fedora Rawhide/39 (with updated License)

[Ben Beasley]

In one week (2023-03-02), or slightly later, I plan to update the 
python-shapely package from 1.8.5.post1 to 2.0.1 in Rawhide/F39 by 
merging the linked PR[1].

There are incompatible changes[2], but after some patching and some 
waiting for upstream releases, all dependent packages now build 
successfully in COPR[3], and I believe all upper-bounds on the Shapely 
version have been removed or loosened. No action by dependent package 
maintainers should be required; however, I am happy to help if you do 
encounter any problems.

The License field changes from BSD-3-Clause to (BSD-3-Clause AND 
Unlicense AND MIT). The Unlicense term comes from more careful 
consideration of the versioneer-generated file shapely/_version.py, and 
the MIT term comes from a new bundled source file that is a “copylib” 
from https://github.com/attractivechaos/klib.

I have no plans to build Shapely 2 for Fedora 38/Branched.

[1] https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-shapely/pull-request/9

[2] https://shapely.readthedocs.io/en/stable/migration.html

[3] https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/music/shapely/packages/