Hi,

for the last years, the python3 packages on my tumbleweed systems kind of nicely upgraded to newer versions of python, both for the base interpreters and some addon packages that I learned to rely on for some of my own system management rpms.

I was used to use something like this in my own dependencies:

Requires: python3-pycryptodome

and that magically pulls in + also updates, along with major python updates, the respective addon packages (other one I'm used to use, is python3-zypp-plugin)

Today I noticed that apparently, that does not work anymore. Reason being that these packages no longer contain the "Provides: python3-pycryptodome" etc entries, since python312 (also for python313).

Right now with my established practice, it seems I'll be stuck with python311 packages forever, or things will break once they get removed from tumbleweed.

Is there something published on this change? Anything I should do instead to express such requirements and get back to the magically working updating I'm used to? Or is python distro packaging a fatally lost cause + I should just forget about it?

best regards

Patrick

trick:~ # rpm -q --provides python311-pycryptodome
python3-pycrypto = 3.21.0
python3-pycryptodome = 3.21.0-1.2
python3.11dist(pycryptodome) = 3.21
python311-pycrypto = 3.21.0
python311-pycryptodome = 3.21.0-1.2
python311-pycryptodome(x86-64) = 3.21.0-1.2
python3dist(pycryptodome) = 3.21
trick:~ # rpm -q --provides python312-pycryptodome
python3.12dist(pycryptodome) = 3.21
python312-pycrypto = 3.21.0
python312-pycryptodome = 3.21.0-1.2
python312-pycryptodome(x86-64) = 3.21.0-1.2
python3dist(pycryptodome) = 3.21