python-dateutil update

[Pete Travis]

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On 12/08/2014 09:47 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 08, 2014 at 09:10:59AM -0700, Pete Travis wrote:
>> On Dec 8, 2014 8:51 AM, "Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek" <zbyszek at in.waw.pl>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On Sun, Dec 07, 2014 at 04:45:12PM -0700, Pete Travis wrote:
>>>> python-dateutil is old[0].  Fedora is carrying version 1.5, and
upstream
>>>> is up to 2.3 .  If you're receiving this mail directly, you are a
>>>> maintainer of  a package that depends on python-dateutil, and we need
>>>> your help.
>>> It seems that calibre is fine with the new version. I wanted to update
>>> pyton-dateutil to check if calibre works, and it seems that I
>>> installed python-dateutil-2.3 with pip --user couple of months ago and
>>> calibre didn't seem to mind. There's some dateutil usage in the
installer,
>>> which I didn't test but which we probably don't care about.
>>> https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil/blob/master/NEWS also doesn't seem
>>> scary.
>>>
>>> So I think it's fine it python-dateutil is updated as a calibre dep.
>>>
>>> Zbyszek
>>
>> Great, thanks for responding.   I'm a *light* calibre user, but I'd be
>> happy to help test with a newer dateutil when it becomes available if
>> that's the direction you are going.
> You can just install the python-dateutil-2.* package and test away ;)
>
> Looking at the list and your annoucement mail again, I wonder if it
> might be better to bump python-dateutil to 2.2 again as soon as the
> updated python-dateutil15 is available, and simply modify packages
> which either explicitly depend on dateutil < 2 or exhibit problems to
> depend on python-dateutil15. Proven packagers can do that trivially if
> necessary. Otherwise this could drag on for months.
>
> fedocal and python-django-tastypie are the only packages which
> explicitly require python-dateutil < 2. If you wish, I can volunteer
> file bugs to change the dependency for F21 and rawhide for those two
> packages and do it myself after a week if the maintainers don't
> respond or are fine with the change (got to use those provenpackager
> privs for something :)).
>
> Zbyszek

Okay, I finally have things in motion here.... python-dateutil15 in
rawhide is usable as described and an update for F21 will be available
soon. Provenpackage at will :)

- -- 
- -- Pete
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