Bug 1655232

Summary:	Packaging: libevent-devel pulls in python2 as a dependency during package builds
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Anthony Messina <amessina>
Component:	libevent	Assignee:	Ondřej Lysoněk <olysonek>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	29	CC:	olysonek, redhat.c2zyt, ruben, steved
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Description Anthony Messina 2018-12-01 16:42:00 UTC

libevent hasn't had any recent releases since 2.1.8. Building packages against libevent-devel will pull the Python2 stack into the buildsystem since the following commit occurred after the 2.1.8 release.

Please include the following upstream commit in a bumped release: Port `event_rpcgen.py` and `test/check-dumpevents.py` to Python 3.

https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/8b0aa7b36a3250fad4953f194c8a94ab25032583#diff-627317413ad60f20b4bce7f0352ec0a9

This should make libevent-devel not pull in Python2 when it's technically not necessary.

Comment 1 Anthony Messina 2019-04-02 03:24:08 UTC

Hi Steve.  I'm wondering if you can take a look at this if you have some time.  I'm working on packaging non-Python2 things (Kamailio for one) that build against libevent-devel in preparation for Fedora 30 and it would be great to not have a Python2 stack brought into the buildsystem, isolating other potential Python2/Python3 issues in the code.  Thanks.

Comment 2 Fedora Update System 2019-08-16 12:07:27 UTC

FEDORA-2019-ee3442fd65 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-ee3442fd65

Comment 3 Ondřej Lysoněk 2019-08-16 12:09:27 UTC

I've applied the patch in f30..master. Please let me know if you need it in F29 as well.

Note that it now pulls in python3. I hope that's fine.

Comment 4 Anthony Messina 2019-08-16 23:31:07 UTC

Thank you.  Personally, I would not need this backported to F29 since I'm not using F29 any longer.

Comment 5 Anthony Messina 2019-08-16 23:36:57 UTC

https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases shows the latest release as 2.1.11-stable.  I'm not sure if there are other reasons to keep this at 2.1.8 in Fedora--that's up to the maintainer, but it may be easier than carrying the patches.

Thank you for your fixes Ondřej.  I'll starting testing with my Kamailio builds.

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2019-08-17 01:27:41 UTC

libevent-2.1.8-7.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 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-2019-ee3442fd65

Comment 7 Ondřej Lysoněk 2019-08-19 08:44:44 UTC

I'm planning to rebase to 2.1.11 in Rawhide only because it comes with a soname change. And while reviewing the changes in the releases > 2.1.8, I've come to the conclusion that it's probably safer to stick with 2.1.8 in earlier Fedora releases.

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2019-09-03 01:03:34 UTC

libevent-2.1.8-7.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.