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On Wed, Dec 04, 2013 at 07:18:31AM -0500, Bohuslav Kabrda wrote:
> ----- Original Message -----
> Oh, I see. Some time ago, FPC has accepted a change that says, that
> packages with "py" in name should be prefixed with "python-"
anyway [1].
> Since this only applies to newly created packages, we will have to cope
> with this, unfortunately. So my idea of handling this would be:
> - all packages must have Provides: python-*
> - packages that weren't prefixed with "python-" previously (pyserial,
> PyYAML), should also carry an explicit Provides/Obsoletes for the old
> name.
> Sounds good?
>
I would remove that first bullet point. The point of the Provides and
Obsoletes is to provide backwards compatibility. If there's no previous
python-* there's no need to take up that name in the namespace.
Ok, I updated the wiki page with some more talk about the Provides and Obsoletes, which
should incorporate this change and also the others mentioned. You can check out just the
diff [1]
> > What about apps? Do we want something in the guidelines
that would say:
> Toshio already proposed a guidelines solution for this [2], but now that
> I look at it, it seems that it never got proposed to FPC. Toshio, will you
> propose that or should I? I guess we can do this regardless of the change
> I'm proposing now.
>
> [2]
>
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/python-devel/2013-November/0005...
>
Please do. I haven't got a whole lot of time these days :-(
Done [2].
-Toshio
Thanks,
Slavek.
[1]
https://fedoraproject.org/w/index.php?title=User%3ABkabrda%2FPy2to3Guidel...
[2]
https://fedorahosted.org/fpc/ticket/373