On 8/7/19 10:48 AM, Miro HronĨok wrote:
On 07. 08. 19 9:32, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
> I'd like to drop the python2-rpm subpackage in Fedora 31.
>
> There are a handful of dependencies left for it still but these all
> appear more or less dead upstream (and some even downstream), and will
> go down with the great python2 flush soon anyway. Kobo is the
> exception but that has a python3 counterpart already. Here's what
> repoquery --whatrequires python2-rpm on rawhide gives today:
>
> ailurus-0:10.10.3-19.fc31.noarch
> dmlite-shell-0:1.13.1-2.fc31.x86_64
> firmware-tools-0:2.1.15-5.fc29.noarch
FTBFS, should have been retired yesterday.
> mach-0:1.0.4-10.fc31.i686
> mach-0:1.0.4-10.fc31.x86_64
> python2-kobo-rpmlib-0:0.10.0-2.fc31.noarch
Drop announced, doesn't install. Will be dropped ~ 2019-08-15.
> repo_manager-0:0.1.0-15.fc31.noarch
> system-config-users-0:1.3.8-6.fc29.noarch
FTBFS, should have been retired yesterday.
> vdsm-0:4.18.999-447.git0bb7717.fc28.x86_64
FTBFS, should have been retired yesterday.
Heh, remarkably unlucky timing then on my behalf.
> I'd rather not maintain the python2 bindings for another
release just
> because a handful of apparently dead software depends on it.
>
> Thoughts?
CC the maintainers, wait for them to not reply and do it:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F31_Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal#...
Yup, read that.
Since the current dependencies are to go away on their own within a week
or two, I can wait that much for the road to clear itself up.
The thing is that an external maintainer for the python2 part doesn't
make sense for rpm. Either the rpm-team maintains it 'till the mass
remove or we drop it now, anything else is just unwanted overhead. Hence
the request for thoughts rather than invite for others to maintain.
- Panu -