Filing Bugs for Python 3 Switch

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 11:09:08AM -0500, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> Some general notes:
> If your package depends on Python because of a Python script that has /usr/bin/python in hashbang, you need to change this to /usr/bin/python3. All "Requires" and "BuildRequires" on Python extension modules have to be changed from "python-foo" to "python3-foo" in order for this change to work.

Wouldn't it be better to simply say that "Dependencies have to be adjusted
so provide the necessary Python 3 modules." ? How to do it depends on the package,
sometimes a slightly different set might be used, and simply changing all python-
to python3- might not be enough.

> If your package is an "application" (let's call it "foo") and it also generates a subpackage with Python bindings (i.e. "python-foo" or "foo-python"), you should provide a python3 subpackage ("python3-foo" or "foo-python3") and use that as dependency of other subpackages.

This part is unclear. What "other subpackages" and why should the
depend on the python3 subpackge?

Zbyszek