Bug 1374924

It's outside my realm of knowledge to analyse why rpl doesn't work with python 3, so I would welcome any assistance.

i would say it's not about "doesn't work" but about how it's built -> see https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1374925 which leaves now "rpl" as the only python2 consumer on the inbound mailserver

What, specifically, about "how it's built" can be changed to make it work correctly with python3, given that, as you said in the original report, the script itself doesn't work with a python3 shebang?

The package is very open to contributions.

Frankly i am no python developer - have you considered looking at the changes of the other package or just asking on the devel-list or tried to ping the person who brought "python3 as the default implementation" or even just ask upstream 

Just saying dunno to a end-user that is in the meantime pissed that he have to remove the package from machines where he like to get rid of two python stacks won't change anything

or just look what debian did

https://packages.debian.org/sid/utils/rpl
lists python3 as dependency and has BTW a newer version (1.5.7 while we are at 1.5.5)

http://rpl.sourceforge.net/ "rpl was originally written for the Debian project"

Thank you for the research & information. Interestingly the upstream website still lists 1.5.5 as the latest version which is why I've not picked up a newer one. However you are right to point out that Debian (and the upstream github) have a newer one, which supports Python 3 (and therefore resolves this issue). It looks like the maintainer (and yes, the upstream maintainer is also the Debian maintainer) may have forgotten to update it. I'll take contact.

Fixed in rawhide.

thanks!

would be nice to have that at least also backported to F25
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