On Thu, 19 Jul 2018, Miro Hrončok wrote:
> The ** POINT ** of producing such a report is to 'put
> numbers' on the scope of the work rather than loose armwaving
> assertions such as:
>
> > Fedora still has more than 3000 packages depending on
> > python2 – many more than we can support without upstream
> > help.
Those are real Fedora numbers [0]. No armwaving involved.
1311 python2 only packages
1734 python2+python3 packages
+ 88 with packaging problem where I'm not sure
That is something between 3045 and 3133. That can be rounded to 3k.
No idea why we moved the discussion to another list as well, but stop accusing
us from armwaving. We have data (for Fedora, because that where we started the
discussion). As for RHEL/EPEL: current ones can remain as they are. Future
ones see [1].
"accusing" ? I think it is pretty clear that more than a
little projection is going on here. I offered a description
of methodology, hard numbers on six archives, and the
generation script to nail down numbers. Before your most
recent email, .... nope
The _reason_ that it was off an EPEL thread (EPEL of course
being PART OF FEDORAPROJECT, last time I looked) is that is
the harder one to solve, and also there was a thread going as
to planning a meeting, of which that hard data was a part
If I go to a car dealer and seek to buy a car and ask a price,
and am told by the salesperson:
"more than 3000" dollars
they have not yet not told me a price they will sell the car
at
-- Russ herrold