hello, On 17.8.2016 18:09, Todd Rme wrote:
Fedora is implementing a system to automatically add reliable, distro-agnostic provides to their python packages [1]. This (...) What does everything think about implementing this on our end as well?
yes, let's please do this. :)
I am not exactly clear from the discussion what exactly it would entail.
We'd need to extend the autoreqprov generator in our RPM. There is already some python-related code, IIRC, something that can generate provides from files/directories in site-packages directory. It would be beneficial to have both: the canonical name from pypi, what fedora is doing now, and also provides for imports -- even though the latter would never be perfect. Some RPM person please speak up? m.
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/Automatic_Provides_for_Python_RPM_Pac... [2] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/python-devel@lists.fedoraproje...