On Thu, 10 Nov 2016 09:07:54 -0500
Josh Boyer <jwboyer(a)fedoraproject.org> wrote:
On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 8:42 AM, Barry Scott
<barry(a)barrys-emacs.org>
wrote:
> In this bug
>
>
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1360797
>
> It is implied that rpkg has an unspecified problem with GitPython
> 2.0.
>
> This is preventing the maintainer from updating to the any
> GitPython 2 release.
>
> I'd like to know if there is in fact a problem with rpkg with
> GitPython 2.0.
>
> If there is a problem it would be nice if the rpkg people could
> comment on the difficult of supporting GitPython 2. The python2.6
> support question I suspect can be handled by version checking in
> any conflicting code.
>
> It seems wrong that rpkg is blocking updating to the latest
> GitPython, preventing user of GitPython getting the bugs fixes and
> (as far as I am aware) backwards compatible improvements.
Why does it seem wrong?
yep, a distribution is about compromises, but couldn't a compat
GitPython-1 package solve the problem, if both GitPython 1 and 2 can be
installed in parallel?
Dan