Bug 1445375
| Summary: | The package summary is based on python2 | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Petr Viktorin (pviktori) <pviktori> |
| Component: | python3 | Assignee: | Charalampos Stratakis <cstratak> |
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | low | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | bkabrda, cstratak, ishcherb, mcyprian, mhroncok, pviktori, rkuska, tomspur, torsava |
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| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | python3-3.6.1-6.fc26 | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value |
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| Last Closed: | 2017-05-14 20:18:51 UTC | Type: | Bug |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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So let's move the Python 2 description unchanged into Python 3 and put the Python 2 description as: Python 2 is an old version of the language that is incompatible with the 3.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed in the 3.x line. What do you think? ...old legacy version... Also, put "Legacy Python" in the summary :D Agreed :) Maybe we can also add to the description: "Caution, Python 2 is only supported until the year 2020." ? I don't think EOS information belongs in a package description. 2020 is the end of upstream support. Anyone can choose to support it in Fedora after that, even if we orphan it. python3-3.6.1-6.fc26 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 26. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-1e3062e0d6 python3-3.6.1-6.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2017-1e3062e0d6 python3-3.6.1-6.fc26 has been pushed to the Fedora 26 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. |
The summary of the python3 package is currently: Python 3 is a new version of the language that is incompatible with the 2.x line of releases. The language is mostly the same, but many details, especially how built-in objects like dictionaries and strings work, have changed considerably, and a lot of deprecated features have finally been removed. And for Python 2: Python is an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. Python includes modules, classes, exceptions, very high level dynamic data types and dynamic typing. Python supports interfaces to many system calls and libraries, as well as to various windowing systems (X11, Motif, Tk, Mac and MFC). Programmers can write new built-in modules for Python in C or C++. Python can be used as an extension language for applications that need a programmable interface. Note that documentation for Python is provided in the python-docs package. This package provides the "python" executable; most of the actual implementation is within the "python-libs" package. Since Python 3 is the default Python now, it should be the other way around: python3 should define what it is, and python2 should say that it's an older version.