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New package elice
Elice is a PureBasic to C++ translator / compiler
New package libcanberra
Portable Sound Event Library
New package lua-lpeg
Parsing Expression Grammars for Lua
New package perl-Panotools-Script
Panorama Tools scripting
New package phonon
Multimedia framework api
New package pspp
A program for statistical analysis of sampled data
New package sound-theme-freedesktop
freedesktop.org sound theme
Removed package opyum
Updated Packages:
blobAndConquer-0.95-1.fc10
--------------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede(a)hhs.nl> 0.95-1
- New upstream release 0.95
bouml-doc-4.3.2-1
-----------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Debarshi Ray <rishi(a)fedoraproject.org> - 4.3.2-1
- Version bump to 4.3.2. Closes Red Hat Bugzilla bug#445559.
cairo-dock-1.6.0-0.2.svn1105_trunk.fc10
---------------------------------------
* Tue Jun 17 18:00:00 2008 Mamoru Tasaka <mtasaka(a)ioa.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
- svn 1105
cleanfeed-0.95.7b-22.fc10
-------------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Roman Rakus <rrakus(a)redhat.com> - 0.95.7b-22
- Added dist to release tag
coreutils-6.12-4.fc10
---------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik(a)redhat.com> - 6.12-4
- print verbose output of chcon with newline after each
message (#451478)
cpanspec-1.77-1.fc10
--------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Steven Pritchard <steve(a)kspei.com> 1.77-1
- Update to 1.77.
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Steven Pritchard <steve(a)kspei.com> 1.76-1
- Update to 1.76.
crystal-clear-20050622-7.fc10
-----------------------------
* Sun Jun 15 18:00:00 2008 Chitlesh Goorah <chitlesh [AT] fedoraproject DOT org> 20050622-7
- Bugfix 440851 FTBFS crystal-clear-20050622-6.fc8
- Expanding user base by removing requires: kdebase
ettercap-0.7.3-26.fc10
----------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb(a)jcomserv.net> - 0.7.3-26
- Fix for mitm CPU util bug.
evolution-2.23.4-1.fc10
-----------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.23.4-1.fc10
- Update to 2.23.4
- Remove patches for RH bug #449925 (fixed upstream).
evolution-data-server-2.23.4-1.fc10
-----------------------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 3.23.4-1.fc10
- Update to 2.23.4
evolution-exchange-2.23.4-1.fc10
--------------------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.23.4-1.fc10
- Update to 2.23.4
evolution-sharp-0.17.4-1.fc10
-----------------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 0.17.4-1.fc10
- Update to 0.17.4.
ez-ipupdate-3.0.11-0.19.b8.fc10
-------------------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Jeff Layton <jlayton(a)redhat.com> - 3.0.11-0.19.b8
- compile with -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 so we can handle 64-bit inode numbers
in stat() calls
filezilla-3.0.11-1.fc10
-----------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 kwizart < kwizart at gmail.com > - 3.0.11-1
- Update to 3.0.11
- Create patch for a shared tinyxml.
- Add support for hicolor icons.
freecol-0.7.4-1.fc10
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* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede(a)hhs.nl> 0.7.4-1
- New upstream release 0.7.4
glib2-2.17.2-2.fc10
-------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.17.2-2
- Fix a directory ownership oversight
gnome-python2-2.22.1-2.fc10
---------------------------
* Tue Jun 17 18:00:00 2008 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.22.1-2.fc10
- Fix directory ownership (RH bug #451754).
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.22.1-1.fc10
- Update to 2.22.1
gnome-python2-desktop-2.23.0-1.fc10
-----------------------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.23.0-1.fc10
- Update to 2.23.0.
gnuradio-3.1.2-2.fc9
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* Tue Jun 10 18:00:00 2008 Marek Mahut <mmahut(a)fedoraproject.org> - 3.1.2-2
- Moving usrp header files to usrp-devel (reported by Philip Balister)
* Fri Apr 4 18:00:00 2008 Marek Mahut <mmahut(a)fedoraproject.org> - 3.1.2-1
- Upstream release
- Modification of gnuradio-3.1.2-gcc34.patch to the new release
gprolog-1.3.0-17.fc10
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* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Jochen Schmitt <Jochen herr-schmitt de> 1.3.0-17
- Remove TRAILSZ and GLOBALSZ environment variables
gresistor-0.0.1-12.fc10
-----------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Chitlesh Goorah <chitlesh(a)fedoraproject.org> - 0.0.1-12
- Bugfix 440866 FTBFS gresistor-0.0.1-11.fc8
gsl-1.11-1.fc10
---------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Ivana Varekova <varekova(a)redhat.com> - 1.11-1
- update to 1.11
gtkhtml3-3.23.4-1.fc10
----------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 3.23.4-1.fc10
- Update to 3.23.4
gyachi-1.1.35-6.fc10
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* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Gregory D Hosler <ghosler(a)fedoraproject.org> - 1.1.35-6
- Made Alsa driver a plugin, added pulseaudio support as a plugin.
- Disabled pulseaudio plugin for F7
kdelibs-4.0.82-1.fc10
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* Fri Jun 13 18:00:00 2008 Than Ngo <than(a)redhat.com> 4.0.82-1
- 4.0.82
kernel-xen-2.6-2.6.26-0.1.rc6.git2.fc10
---------------------------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Mark McLoughlin <markmc(a)redhat.com>
- Rebase to kernel-2_6_26-0_72_rc6_git2_fc10
lesstif-0.95.0-25.fc10
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* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede(a)hhs.nl> 0.95.0-25
- Fix PutPixel32 crashing on 64 bit (bz 437133)
* Mon May 12 18:00:00 2008 Patrice Dumas <pertusus(a)free.fr> 0.95.0-24
- remove the BuildRequires: libGLw-devel, it leads to circular build
dependency with no gain
libcmpiutil-0.4-1.fc10
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libsoup-2.23.1-3.fc10
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* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Matthew Barnes <mbarnes(a)redhat.com> - 2.23.1-3
- Incorporate package review feedback (RH bug #226046).
* Sun May 4 18:00:00 2008 Matthias Clasen <mclasen(a)redhat.com> - 2.23.1-2
- Fix source url
man-pages-ru-0.97-3.fc10
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* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Ivana Varekova <varekova(a)redhat.com> - 0.97-3
- rebuild
- change license tag
mod_wsgi-1.3-4.fc10
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* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Ricky Zhou <ricky(a)fedoraproject.org> 1.3-4
- Build against the shared python lib.
notification-daemon-0.3.7.90-0.svn3009.fc10
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* Tue Jun 10 18:00:00 2008 Colin Walters <walters(a)redhat.com> -0.3.7.90-0.svn3009
- Update to SVN snapshot 3009 (patches below are against it)
- BR gnome-common so we can autogen
- Add positioning patch
- Add patch to fix the dist
- Edit libsexy patch to adapt to the fact we're using an SVN export
- Drop upstreamed summary patch
- Add some code in install to delete notification-properties crapplet
- BR libglade2-devel
patch-2.5.4-34.fc10
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* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 2.5.4-34
- Only write simple backups for each file once during a run
(bug #234822).
plt-scheme-4.0-3.fc10
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* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Gerard Milmeister <gemi(a)bluewin.ch> - 1:4.0-2
- fix builds for different architectures
* Sat Jun 14 18:00:00 2008 Gerard Milmeister <gemi(a)bluewin.ch> - 1:4.0-1
- new release 4.0
plymouth-0.3.2-2.fc10
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* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> - 0.3.2-2
- dont go back to text mode on exit
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode(a)redhat.com> - 0.3.2-1
- Update to version 0.3.2
- show gradient in spinfinity plugin
- Drop fade out in spinfinity plugin
- fix throbber placement
- rename graphical.so to default.so
pychecker-0.8.17-5
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* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Vitezslav Crhonek <vcrhonek(a)redhat.com> - 0.8.17-5
- Rebuild
Resolves: #451375
python-inotify-0.8.0-1.q.fc10
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* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Terje Rosten <terjeros(a)phys.ntnu.no> - 0.8.0-1.q
- 0.8.0q
- Update url, license and source url
rhythmbox-0.11.5-15.fc10
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* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 - Bastien Nocera <bnocera(a)redhat.com> - 0.11.5-15
- Avoid crash on new iPods (#451547)
roundcubemail-0.2-2.alpha.fc10
------------------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb(a)jcomserv.net> = 0.2-2.alpha
- osx files removed upstream.
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Jon Ciesla <limb(a)jcomserv.net> = 0.2-1.alpha
- Fixed php-xml, php-mbstring Requires. BZ 451652.
- Removing osx files, will be pulled from next upstream release.
rrdtool-1.3.0-1.fc10
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* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Chris Ricker <kaboom(a)oobleck.net> 1.3.0-1
- Update to rrdtool 1.3.0
rxvt-unicode-9.05-1.fc10
------------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Andreas Bierfert <andreas.bierfert[AT]lowlatency.de>
- 9.05-1
- version upgrade
sonata-1.5.2-1.fc10
-------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Michał Bentkowski <mr.ecik at gmail.com> - 1.5.2-1
- 1.5.2
tree-1.5.2-1.fc10
-----------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Tim Waugh <twaugh(a)redhat.com> 1.5.2-1
- 1.5.2.
- Dropped no-colour patch.
vavoom-1.28-1.fc10
------------------
* Mon Jun 16 18:00:00 2008 Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede(a)hhs.nl> 1.28-1
- New upstream release 1.28
Summary:
Added Packages: 7
Removed Packages: 1
Modified Packages: 44
Broken deps for i386
----------------------------------------------------------
1:libgda-freetds-3.1.2-3.fc9.i386 requires libtds.so.5
muine-0.8.8-9.fc9.i386 requires mono(glib-sharp) = 0:2.10.0.0
muine-0.8.8-9.fc9.i386 requires mono(gdk-sharp) = 0:2.10.0.0
muine-0.8.8-9.fc9.i386 requires mono(gtk-sharp) = 0:2.10.0.0
pygsl-0.9.1-8.fc9.i386 requires gsl = 0:1.10
pygsl-devel-0.9.1-8.fc9.i386 requires gsl-devel = 0:1.10
smart-0.52-54.fc9.i386 requires smart-config
Broken deps for x86_64
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freenx-server-0.7.2-8.fc10.x86_64 requires /usr/lib64/nx
1:libgda-freetds-3.1.2-3.fc9.x86_64 requires libtds.so.5()(64bit)
muine-0.8.8-9.fc9.x86_64 requires mono(gdk-sharp) = 0:2.10.0.0
muine-0.8.8-9.fc9.x86_64 requires mono(glib-sharp) = 0:2.10.0.0
muine-0.8.8-9.fc9.x86_64 requires mono(gtk-sharp) = 0:2.10.0.0
pygsl-0.9.1-8.fc9.x86_64 requires gsl = 0:1.10
pygsl-devel-0.9.1-8.fc9.i386 requires gsl-devel = 0:1.10
pygsl-devel-0.9.1-8.fc9.x86_64 requires gsl-devel = 0:1.10
smart-0.52-54.fc9.x86_64 requires smart-config
Broken deps for ppc
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1:libgda-freetds-3.1.2-3.fc9.ppc requires libtds.so.5
muine-0.8.8-9.fc9.ppc requires mono(glib-sharp) = 0:2.10.0.0
muine-0.8.8-9.fc9.ppc requires mono(gdk-sharp) = 0:2.10.0.0
muine-0.8.8-9.fc9.ppc requires mono(gtk-sharp) = 0:2.10.0.0
pygsl-0.9.1-8.fc9.ppc requires gsl = 0:1.10
pygsl-devel-0.9.1-8.fc9.ppc requires gsl-devel = 0:1.10
pygsl-devel-0.9.1-8.fc9.ppc64 requires gsl-devel = 0:1.10
smart-0.52-54.fc9.ppc requires smart-config
Broken deps for ppc64
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emma-2.0-0.5312.2jpp.3.fc9.noarch requires maven2
1:libgda-freetds-3.1.2-3.fc9.ppc64 requires libtds.so.5()(64bit)
livecd-tools-017-1.fc9.ppc64 requires yaboot
perl-Test-AutoBuild-darcs-1.2.2-3.fc9.noarch requires darcs >= 0:1.0.0
ppc64-utils-0.14-2.fc9.ppc64 requires yaboot
pygsl-0.9.1-8.fc9.ppc64 requires gsl = 0:1.10
pygsl-devel-0.9.1-8.fc9.ppc64 requires gsl-devel = 0:1.10
smart-0.52-54.fc9.ppc64 requires smart-config
15 years, 10 months
Meeting Summary emails
by Mike Chambers
I don't know if this is relevant, or at least important or anything, but
would it be worth creating/using a template to send out meeting summary
emails so they follow the same procedure and easier to understand or
something? Not that these aren't or that I am complaining, just
something I thought of when I saw two email summaries and how different
they were and thought I would bring it up in case others might have
thought of it as well.
Keep up the good work :)
--
Mike Chambers
Fedora Project - Ambassador, Bug Zapper, Tester, User, etc..
mikec302(a)fedoraproject.org
15 years, 10 months
/bin/mail replacement (next generation of mailx)
by Dmitry Butskoy
I would like to propose upgrade the "mailx" package (cmdline /bin/mail
interface) to the newer source from the Heirloom project:
http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html . The new source is derived
from the old one and is fully compatible with it.
Such a replacement (from old bsd mailx-8.1.x to the Heirloom's
mailx-12.x) is already done in OpenSuse and Slackware.
Initially, the project was named as "nail". Since the version of 12.x it
was renamed to the ordinary name of "mailx", (because the original
mailx-8.x no more developed). Under the name of "nail" it is already in
Fedora. I continue to maintain it as "nail", while the original
mailx-8.x is used.
Mailx-12.x adds a lot of useful functionality to the "cmdline mail
command", which seems to be expected long years ago. Without it, some
tasks can be performed only by TUI or even GUI applications, which makes
impossible to automate things by scripts.
My initial motivation to add nail/mailx to Fedora was inspired by the
time of switching to Dovecot IMAP server and recommendation to switch
from mailbox to Maildir format. The current /bin/mail do not work with
Maildir, hence it cannot be used for reading mail from cmdline at all
(until you still use mailbox format). Besides the Maildir support (which
looks like a strong requirement for the upgrading), there are such
features as MIME support, encodings, attachments, POP3/IMAP, direct
SMTP, SSL etc., see http://heirloom.sourceforge.net/mailx.html
Note, that SSL support can be provided either by OpenSSL or by NSS. The
use of NSS matches the recent requirements of Fedora's "Security
Consolidation".
Any comments?
Dmitry Butskoy
http://www.fedoraproject.org/wiki/DmitryButskoy
15 years, 10 months
FESCo Meeting Summary for 2008-06-12
by Brian Pepple
= 2008 June 12 FESCo Meeting =
== Members ==
=== Present ===
* Brian Pepple (bpepple)
* Jason Tibbitts (tibbs)
* Bill Nottingham (notting)
* Kevin Fenzi (nirik)
* Jeremy Katz (jeremy)
* Dennis Gilmore (dgilmore)
* Warren Togami (warren)
* David Woodhouse (dwmw2)
* Jesse Keating (f13)
* Tom Callaway (spot)
* Christian Iseli (c4chris)
* Josh Boyer (jwb)
=== Absent ===
* Christopher Aillon (caillon)
== Summary ==
=== New Sponsors ===
* FESCo has approved the sponsor requests for:
** Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams (ivazquez)
** Nicolas Mailhot (nim-nim)
* Note: Voting was delayed for Remi Collet, Axel Thimm, and Gérard
Milmeister, so that we could verify that they wished to be made
sponsors.
=== FUDCon FESCo meeting ===
* Next week's (2008-06-19) FESCo meeting will be a conference call,
providing the FUDCon facilities has a speaker phone. If not, it will be
held on IRC as usual.
=== FESCo Role ===
* FESCo defined the broad scope of the responsibilities as follows:
** Features, Sponsors, Packaging and SIG Oversight,
Handling/Enforcement of Maintainer Issues, and other technical matters
related to the distribution and its construction.
* Next week's meeting will start working on details.
IRC log can be found at:
http://bpepple.fedorapeople.org/fesco/FESCo-2008-06-12.html
Later,
/B
--
Brian Pepple <bpepple(a)fedoraproject.org>
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/BrianPepple
gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys 810CC15E
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15 years, 10 months
Fedora Release Engineering Meeting Recap 2008-06-09
by John Poelstra
Recap and full IRC transcript found here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/ReleaseEngineering/Meetings/2008-jun-09
Please make corrections and clarifications to the wiki page.
== Misc Open Topics from F13==
* edited up sign_unsigned and managed to get a lot of speed increase out
of it
* F10 schedule looks okay
* spam filter plugin going into Fedora hopefully today so that we can
try to reduce the spam in our project space even more
== Source Control Management (SCM) ==
* Solely a requirements gathering phase--no specific SCM will be identified
* ideas so far of things that would be good to have:
** script triggers pre/post commit actions
** able to reliably disseminate commits as they happen to a selected
group of people (per package & branch)
** having acls/multiple owners for things is implied, but might need to
be explicit
** better integration with our environment in general, pkgdb, bodhi,
bugzilla, etc..
** able to clone for disconnected development
** able to create new branches cheaply
** exploded source trees and quilt like patch management vs just simple
patch files--ideally our new system would allow for both, depending on
how the owner of the module decides to do it
** easy between-branch merging for those who like to ship the same
source rpm everywhere
** not rely on magic 'branch' files for the build & tag-fu to work
== Fedora ia64 ==
* ia64 is almost ready to do an F9 release
* they need an updated fedora-release package that has their GPG key in it
**Seth is working on a yum change that will allow a single RPM gpg file
hold multiple keys, so that we can just append the ia64 key to the
current file.
** also talking with the yum guys about a possible change to how yum
handles gpg files
** more discussion needed
== Hardware Update ==
* blade center was installed by mmcgrath last week, and we'll soon have
a bunch more builders in koji
== IRC Transcript ==
15 years, 10 months
Finnish spell checking packages and comps
by Ville-Pekka Vainio
Hi,
We now have the Enchant Voikko provider in Fedora (package enchant-voikko),
which provides Finnish spell checking support in Enchant. I would like to add
it in comps for F10 and F9, but it's (clearly) not a GUI app and enchant
itself is not in comps at all. This is what I'd like to add under
the "Finnish support" group:
<packagereq type="conditional" requires="enchant">enchant-voikko</packagereq>
Would that be ok? I see pretty much the same has been done for hunspell
packages for different languages, but hunspell is in the Base group, enchant
is not. What should I do?
I also have a package called tmispell-voikko, which can be used as an ispell
replacement for Finnish and it also has an ncurses "GUI". Technically it's a
text mode app, but could I still add it? It would go under the "Finnish
Support" group as well:
<packagereq type="optional">tmispell-voikko</packagereq>
--
Ville-Pekka Vainio
15 years, 10 months
Let's make a plan for python3.0 in Fedora 10+
by Toshio Kuratomi
The python programming language is going to be releasing a new version
sometime around the time of the Fedora 10 release. Unlike past
releases, this one will have wide-spread backwards incompatibility in
the python language itself. We need to think about how we want to pull
the new language into the distribution and porting of existing
apps/modules. Here's a proposal to start us off but I hope geppetto
(the python maintainer) and ivazquez (who maintains python3.0 packages
in his spare time[1]_) will weigh in with their thoughts.
.. _[1]: http://ivazquez.fedorapeople.org/packages/python3000/
== Proposal ==
* We should review and add the python3000 package to Fedora devel ASAP
so people can work out any bugs with the packaging before F10 release.
* python3000 will not be in the default install for F10. It should not
conflict in any way with the python-2.x package we ship. We should not
port our system tools (system-config-*, anaconda, yum, etc) to
python3000 for F10.
* In F10 modules should not be shipped for python3000 unless upstream is
taking patches for python3000/has a python3000 compatible release branch.
* python3000 modules should have a separate namespace from python2.x
modules. The packaging committee will need to decide on that
(python3-foo, python3000-foo, python3k-foo are possibilities.
python3.0-foo should not be considered as 3.x versions should not have
the same backwards incompatibilities that 2.x->3.x has.)
* Porting to python3000 will occur at some point but that should be a
post-Fedora 10 feature that we decide on after python-3.0 final has been
released. We will also need to discuss whether to port our tools
piecemeal or altogether at that time and to what extent (if any) we will
allow splitting from any upstreams that only support python-2.x.
== Rationale and Notes ==
* python3000 is backwards incompatible with python2.x. Unicode strings,
print becoming a function, exception changes, removal of old-style
classes, and many other changes will prevent nearly all python2.x
programs and modules from functioning in python3000 without source code
changes. In this way, it is practically a new language.
* Porting to python3.0 as a whole distro will take a significant amount
of time. Being able to break that up and work with upstreams to port
smaller portions at a time will aid us in focusing effort where it's needed.
* python2.6.x will be with us for a long time as Guido has said it will
be supported for a much longer time than the 2.n=>2.n+1 series.
However, that doesn't mean that the 3rd party modules we depend on will
be supported on both 2.x and 3.x.
* Working with upstream module authors on these ports will be extremely
important. There are likely to be upstreams that want to support only
python-2.x or both python-2.x and python3000 for a while. There are
tools to help port from 2.x to 3.x but without upstream to be a point of
distribution for the resulting work we'd bear the burden of maintaining
a fork which we definitely don't want to do.
* Timeline: Sep 03 2008: Python 2.6 and 3.0 final [2]_
* Overview of changes http://docs.python.org/dev/3.0/whatsnew/3.0.html
.. _[2]: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0361/
-Toshio
15 years, 10 months
Proposal: bugzilla component for pre-review package development
by Jason L Tibbitts III
Occasionally we see a package review ticket opened for a package which
really isn't ready for review. I'm not sure bugzilla is really best
the place for coordinating packaging work, but some seem to want to
use it for that and I don't really see it as being invalid. Some
folks just want to drop a specfile but don't really want to stick
around to maintain the package.
Unfortunately when this happens, the "not ready for review" ticket
shows up in the review queue, extremely scarce reviewer time is
wasted on tickets that aren't reviewable, and the already huge queue
gets even bigger. One way to deal with this is to just give these
tickets their own bugzilla component. I'm not really sure what to
call it, though. Maybe "Package Development", but that sounds a bit
broad. Whatever the component is called, though, it would give these
tickets a place to go that doesn't complicate the package review
process.
- J<
15 years, 10 months