Multirelease effort: Moving to Python 3

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Thu, Jul 18, 2013 at 11:24:22AM -0400, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> Hi all,
> as a new Fedora Python maintainer, I have set myself a goal of
> moving Fedora to Python 3 as a default.
That's a worthy goal!

> From packaging point of view, this will probably require:
> 1) Renaming python package to python2
> 2) Renaming python3 package to python
> 3) Switching the %{?with_python3} conditionals in specfiles to %{?with_python2} (we will probably create a script to automate this, at least partially)

But that seems like pointless busywork and churn. Sure, when python3
is ubiquitous, those checks can be dropped or reversed... But right
now it would be better to focus on actual python3 versions of all
packages — we're not there yet.

Zbyszek
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