https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1648728
--- Comment #10 from Petr Viktorin pviktori@redhat.com --- (In reply to Ankur Sinha (FranciscoD) from comment #9)
Sure, but in either case once we decide what upstream to follow, we'll have to request upstreams of whatever packages to switch to it.
Yes. If one is clearly better than the other, it shouldn't be an issue, right?
Would it be possible to ask the python-progressbar upstream to retire it, and add a notice requesting people to move to the newer one, which appears to have more features and is better maintained?
IMO it would be better to merge with the fork, since "progressbar" is clearly a better name than "progressbar2".
If this cannot be sorted at an upstream level, the downstream resorts will be to make the two conflict, or we carry downstream patches for lots of software to make the two installable not conflict. (Neither of these are attractive to me).
Exactly.