On 27.7.2017 19:15, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
Do you think it'd be possible to script the python-foo to
python2-foo
renaming?
May be possible but given the variety in the spec files, we didn't think
it would be easy. IMHO taking a bunch of provenpackagers and updating
the packages manually without asking the owners will be less time
consuming than creating an automated tool.
However, in both scenarios (people or tools), I consider that approach
aggressive and would rather only do it when the deadlines are close.
We'd rather not change other people packages and make them mad about
what have we done. The transition to Python 3 is unfortunately
considered a failure in eyes of some Fedora contributors.
I consider communicating our efforts with the package owners and
explaining them what and how to do as more friendly approach. However,
definitively more time expensive.
On the other hand, maybe we can start updating the packages co-owned by
python-sig, as I would say those are considered to be maintained by the
group rather than a person. In case you'd like to try to write an
automated tool for that, please go ahead (but please let us know).
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