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On 04/08/2013 02:58 PM, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
Greetings all,
Fedora Infrastructure develops a python module called python-fedora
which can be used to connect to the web services that we run
(Bodhi, packagedb, etc). This is used by fedpkg, pkgdb-cli, and a
variety of ad hoc scripts that people are running on their
systems.
As the developers of this software, we would like to move to
supporting python-2.6 and higher. Among other things, this will
let us start considering a move to python3. python-2.6 is
available in RHEL6 and python-2.7 is available in all current
Fedora releases. However, RHEL5 has python-2.4. If we move to
python-2.6 the version of python-fedora in EPEL5 will slowly lose
functionality as its code is not updated while the web applications
that the library talks to gain and remove features and change their
API.
The question that we have as the developers of python-fedora is
whether this will be a problem for anyone. If the users of this
library have moved on to RHEL6 and current Fedora, then we're fine
with allowing the version in EPEL to slowly bit-rot; backporting
only security fixes. However, if people are actively running code
that depends on python-fedora working on RHEL5 then it's probably
better for us to maintain python-2.4 compatibility, at least for
the time being.
So if you use this directly or run fedpkg or other scripts which
require it on RHEL5 please speak up and let me know that we need to
continue targeting python-2.4. If you send replies to this list,
I'll see that the information is passed back to the infrastructure
list and team.
(And note, eventually we will have to move to a newer python
version. If we choose to stay with python-2.4 now we'll reevaluate
periodically to figure out when the time has come to move
forward.)
Thanks, Toshio
This may seem like an obvious question, but why not simply have
python-fedora Requires: python26 from EPEL? Wouldn't this avoid the
issue entirely?
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