#6432: Targeted rebuild of Python packages for Fedora 25
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Reporter: torsava | Owner: torsava@…
Type: enhancement | Status: new
Milestone: Fedora 25 Alpha | Component: koji
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Hi!
I want to ask if it would be in any way possible to do a targeted
rebuild of Python packages for Fedora 25.
The RPM package just backported an important feature [0] that, upon
building Python packages, will automatically generate virtual Provides
with canonical name of the software from the Python Packaging Index
(PyPI), a central Python repository. And for this feature to be useful,
all Python packages need to be rebuild with the new version of RPM.
This change will significantly simplify Python packaging because the RPM
will be able to automatically figure out Python dependencies as well as
because maintainers will be able to declare dependencies using canonical
names from PyPI, just as they have been declared by the makers of the
software.
In addition it will improve functioning of the pyp2rpm tool [1] which has
the potential to greatly increase the amount of Python packages available
in Fedora as well as possibly to speed up the adoption of Python 3 among
the Fedora packages.
[0]
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1340885
[1]
https://github.com/fedora-python/pyp2rpm
Thank you for your time and consideration!
Tomas Orsava
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