Bug 1286341

In fact, when the package switched to 0.14 it should have created a new package named

python3-PyX

as per the python packaging guidelines, since it installs in the py3 tree only and is not really an update to the 0.12.1 package. The way it is done, everyone is forced to upgrade to py3.

I'm afraid it's too late to change the package name now. The only other option is a package python2-PyX or similar. I'll think about putting that on copr.

So, here's the copr repo with the F23 package that is the "real update" for PyX from Fedora 22 to Fedora 23:

https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/mjg/python2-PyX/

Honestly the only option is to submit this package to (In reply to Michael J Gruber from comment #1)
> In fact, when the package switched to 0.14 it should have created a new
> package named
> 
> python3-PyX
> 
> as per the python packaging guidelines, since it installs in the py3 tree
> only and is not really an update to the 0.12.1 package. The way it is done,
> everyone is forced to upgrade to py3.
> 
> I'm afraid it's too late to change the package name now. The only other
> option is a package python2-PyX or similar. I'll think about putting that on
> copr.

There are several valid points of view about this transition, the one I have adopted is the main project decided to go python3 only so really the code that is maintained and developed is the 0.14.

It is possible to create a python 2 package as you refer but the code will stay at version 0.12.1 without, almost surely, any further development.

Regarding the dependency from scapy that has evaded my radar. :-(

BTW, regarding the naming of the package I suggest python2-pyx because pyx is the name of python library, while PyX is the name of the software project. :-)

That is why PyX.spec provides a virtual python3-pyx.

Michael if you want to submit this file for review I will approve it immediately. There are several minor cleanups that could be done in the spec file:
 *  BuildRoot is redundant and can be removed;
 * same for the %clean section;
 * same for %defattr;
 * mark LICENSE as %license.

other than that I think that package is ready.

Hello ,
as Michael is not responding for quite some time and I use scapy and still missing this dependency I have submitted the package for review - please could you have a look?

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1387873

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