Re: Rawhide python-rpm-generators news: small speedup + %python_provide not needed in most cases

[Miro Hrončok]

On 07. 04. 20 12:27, Miro Hrončok wrote:
>  When you use %python_provide and when you build the package with the
> new 
>  generator, the provides are listed twice:
>  
>  $ rpm -qp --provides python3-double-provides-0-0.fc33.noarch.rpm
>  python-double-provides = 0-0.fc33
>  python-double-provides = 0-0.fc33
>  python3-double-provides = 0-0.fc33
>  python38-double-provides = 0-0.fc33
>  python38-double-provides = 0-0.fc33
>  
>  $ rpmlint python3-double-provides-0-0.fc33.noarch.rpm
>  ...
>  python3-double-provides.noarch: E: useless-provides python-double-provides
>  python3-double-provides.noarch: E: useless-provides python38-double-provides
>  ...
>  
>  I've reported that as a bug in RPM:
>  
>  https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/1166 
Apparently, there is a good reason to not have those merged. People are notified 
of the uselessness of the manual one. I'll take that into account when amending 
the guidelines.

I recommend to remove the manual %python_provide calls for package names on 
rawhide+.

It is "safe" to keep them for "single-spec" experience: The problem
does no 
harm, createrepo_c merges those provides at the end.

If you like to have a single spec and don't want the rpmlint error, you can wrap 
the call in %{?!__pythonname_provides:   }.

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