Bug 1160078

Description of problem:

python-importlib appears to have a hard 'Conflicts: python(abi)=2.7'. This may prevent installation alongside epel7 default python, but it also causes conflicts with well-formed third party python27 packages for epel6. I believe the autodep created 'Requires: python(abi)=2.6' is enough to prevent installation with python 2.7 on epel7, as the requirement will not be satisfied. If I'm not missing anything, I think the Conflicts could be removed without ill effect.

Note that all non-documentation files in python-importlib are contained in /usr/lib/python2.6, effectively ensuring that it will not actually conflict with a properly namespaced python2.7 package installed simultaneously.

Regarding the documentation files, no python27 importlib package will ever exist as it's included in the main distribution.

[root@vm ~]# repoquery --list python-importlib
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/importlib
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/importlib-1.0.2-py2.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/importlib/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/importlib/__init__.pyc
/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/importlib/__init__.pyo
/usr/share/doc/python-importlib-1.0.2
/usr/share/doc/python-importlib-1.0.2/README

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

1.0.2-1.el6

How reproducible:


Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a third party package that provides python(abi)=2.7
2. yum install python-importlib

Actual results:

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Setting up Install Process
Resolving Dependencies
--> Running transaction check
---> Package python-importlib.noarch 0:1.0.2-1.el6 will be installed
--> Processing Conflict: python-importlib-1.0.2-1.el6.noarch conflicts python(abi) = 2.7
--> Finished Dependency Resolution
Error: python-importlib conflicts with python27-2.7.2-ua26.x86_64
 You could try using --skip-broken to work around the problem
 You could try running: rpm -Va --nofiles --nodigest

Expected results:

Normally installed python-importlib for system python 2.6

Additional info:

Note that this does not to my knowledge cause any issues with any CentOS or EPEL6 packages, however, it doesn't seem to provide much benefit, and causes custom python27 RPMs to have to mess with autoprov to prevent conflicts.