BuildRequires: pythonN-devel unnecessary

Mike Bonnet mikeb at redhat.com
Wed Oct 28 19:12:49 UTC 2015


https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#BuildRequires

This is *not* required for pure Python packages, only for packages 
compiling native extensions:

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/rpminfo?rpmID=6908337

Can we change this guideline to say packages should:

BuildRequires: python2

and/or:

BuildRequires: python3

in the general case, and only use the -devel packages if compiling 
extensions?

Thanks,
Mike

Note: tried to send this to packaging at lists.fedoraproject.org but it 
never got past the moderator.


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