Bug 1737912

Asterisk uses Python 2 in its test suite.  The upstream community is contemplating moving the test suite to Python 3, but I doubt that would happen before January 2020.

This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle.
Changing version to '31'.

The current plan is to remove packages with dependency on Python 2 from Fedora 32 in the middle of November 2019. If you want to keep your package in Fedora after that date and you cannot port it to Python 3 yet, you need to request a FESCo exception for the package and all its Python 2 dependencies (even transitive) [1]. If you don't want to maintain it anymore, and nothing in Fedora uses it, you can retire it or just remove the Python 2 part from it (subpackage, module, bindings, etc.).

If you're considering filing the exception request, let us know. We can help (for example, we can help find all the dependencies).

[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetirePython2#FESCo_exceptions

but when it's only for the testsuite why is it pulled on machines with just this packages?

[root@asterisk:~]$ rpm -qa | grep asterisk
asterisk-sip-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64
asterisk-voicemail-plain-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64
asterisk-voicemail-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64
asterisk-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64
asterisk-iax2-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64

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luckily we work with metapackages per machine pulling deps and so hacks like this one prevent it from get pulled

Provides: python(abi) = 2.7
Provides: /usr/bin/python2

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the downside of such hacks is that it drives dnf crazy for whatever reason

[root@asterisk:~]$ dnf leaves
asterisk-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64
asterisk-iax2-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64
asterisk-sip-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64
asterisk-voicemail-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64
asterisk-voicemail-plain-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64
lounge-voip-30.1-1.fc30.20191022.rh.noarch

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luckily another hack prevents mistakes while "lounge-voip" has Requires: for all asterisk packages and "dnf leaves" should never list something in /etc/dnf/protected.d/ to begin with

[root@asterisk:~]$ dnf remove asterisk-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64 asterisk-iax2-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64 asterisk-sip-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64 asterisk-voicemail-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64 asterisk-voicemail-plain-16.4.0-1.fc30.x86_64 lounge-voip-30.1-1.fc30.20191022.rh.noarch
Error:
 Problem: The operation would result in removing the following protected packages: asterisk, asterisk-iax2, asterisk-sip, asterisk-voicemail, asterisk-voicemail-plain, lounge-voip
(try to add '--skip-broken' to skip uninstallable packages)

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