On 1/12/23 17:32, J Leslie Turriff wrote:
On 2023-01-12 00:59:11 Glen Barney wrote:
|On Thu, 12 Jan 2023 17:24:34 +1030, Simon Lees wrote: |> Don't shoot the messenger, that's just the content of the bugreport. | |No shooting intended from here for sure! I'm very grateful for your |sharing the contents of the bug report, and the history. | |> At a guess i'd say its related to the way someone would like it to be |> implemented for package hub as they are probably using the same package. | |So I guess same question: What options do I, as a lowly user, have to |somehow move this along, and/or get it changed, and/or get some kind of |workaround? I know I can build from source, but I really prefer the |advantages of distro-provided packages if at all possible, not to mention |the nice /etc/alternatives and related support that OpenSuse provides. | |Would it make sense, for example, to raise this on the opensuse-python |list? Or is there some other action I could take to help facilitate? | |Apologies that I lack the organizational/political knowledge here - I've |been a fan of OpenSuse from the v7 days and have always used it as my |primary, but that confers zero knowledge about the people behind the |decisions! | |Thanks for any insight or pointers anyone can provide! | |Glen
Maybe (if you can locate them) talk to the folks who maintain update-alternatives and ask them to discuss it with the Python folks?
In this case its not needed because the packages already don't conflict so update alternatives wouldn't actually solve anything. -- Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net Emergency Update Team keybase.io/simotek SUSE Linux Adelaide Australia, UTC+10:30 GPG Fingerprint: 5B87 DB9D 88DC F606 E489 CEC5 0922 C246 02F0 014B