On Thu, 2017-06-29 at 16:50 -0500, Jason L Tibbitts III wrote:
> > > > > "AW" == Adam Williamson
<adamwill(a)fedoraproject.org> writes:
AW> Right, that's a good point. *Why* exactly do we want to go to all
AW> the trouble involved in making a switchover from 'python-foo'
AW> meaning 'the Python 2 module called foo' to meaning 'the Python 3
AW> module called foo'?
It's about users. Once "python" means python3 (which is a decision that
the python upstream will eventually make), a user should be getting a
python3 version when they type "dnf install python-foo".
Packages should of course always specify the version and should never
use python-* for anything unless there is no alternative. (Which is the
what the current packaging guidelines state.)
That seems like, frankly, quite a weak justification for all the
trouble that's involved in migrating the 'meaning' of python-foo like
this (and, as Smooge pointed out, potentially doing it *again* for
Python 4, if it ever happens).
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