Hi all,

According to the Fedora Packaging guidelines for Python [0], if a Python package that supports Python 3 installs executables into /usr/bin, then either both Python versions of the executables should be packaged, or only the Python 3 version, depending on the functionality they provide.

However, after going through all Python 3-compatible packages for Fedora, we have identified up to ~30 packages which provide both python2- and python3- subpackages with executables available only in the Python 2 version. For more information about obtaining the list refer to the GitHub issue [1]. The list of the affected packages is available here [3].

Before doing mass bug filing, I would like to post the list of packages here, to get feedback or ideas on how this can be fixed in a better way and encourage packagers to do the changes. If you are in Cc, then you are owing at least one of the affected packages. The guide for porting Python-based RPMs is available here [2] and you may refer to it for more instructions.

[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Avoiding_collisions_between_the_python_2_and_python_3_stacks

[1] https://github.com/fedora-python/portingdb/issues/132

[2] http://python-rpm-porting.readthedocs.io/

[3]

PyXB

ahkab

gdal

lcgdm

netcdf4-python

pystache

python-acme

python-aexpect

python-bugzilla

python-docutils

python-doit

python-fiat

python-gearbox

python-igor

python-igraph

python-jsonschema

python-ly

python-ndg_httpsclient

python-ngram

python-oslo-policy

python-oslo-privsep

python-oslo-rootwrap

python-pbr

python-py2neo

python-pygments

python-rosdep

python-rosinstall

python-whisper

Regards,

Iryna Shcherbina