Bug 1738068
| Summary: | notify-python depends on Python 2 | ||
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| Product: | [Fedora] Fedora | Reporter: | Lumír Balhar <lbalhar> |
| Component: | notify-python | Assignee: | Orphan Owner <extras-orphan> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa> |
| Severity: | unspecified | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | unspecified | ||
| Version: | rawhide | CC: | ngompa13, stickster |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | Unspecified | ||
| OS: | Unspecified | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | If docs needed, set a value | |
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |
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| Last Closed: | 2019-11-06 16:34:19 UTC | Type: | Bug |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |
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| Bug Blocks: | 1698500 | ||
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Description
Lumír Balhar
2019-08-06 12:48:19 UTC
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle. Changing version to '31'. This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 31 development cycle. Changing version to 31. Please answer the above questions. If you don't the package can be orphaned: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F31_Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal#Information_on_Remaining_Packages If you need any information or help, please let us know. Please answer the above questions. If you don't, the package can be orphaned: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F31_Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal#Information_on_Remaining_Packages If you need any information or help, or if you need some more time, please let us know. Please answer the above questions. If you don't, the package can be orphaned: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F31_Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal#Information_on_Remaining_Packages If you need any information or help, or if you need some more time, please let us know. notify-python is one of those packages assigned to me because it was a dependency of a package I used to own 10 years ago. I really haven't done anything with it and it appears to have been abandoned by upstream since the last upstream release was 11 years ago. I doubt it's py3 compatible. I will be retiring from Red Hat shortly and have been in the process of reassigning package ownership. My immediate suggestion would be to orphan notify-python and remove it from the distribution until there is some upstream activity. In all candor the upstream project wasn't the best and appeared to be a case of someone needing a Python binding, throwing something together and then moving on. I expect in 2019 there are better ways to export the functionality and there may even be Gnome or GLib bindings at this point that would be a better solution. Actually, now that I think of it I think Paul Frields took ownership of this package, not sure why I'm on the bug cc list, probably because I used to own it. But I think the points I made above stand true, Paul can make an executive decision on how to proceed. Yup, you're remembering correctly, John. So notify-python is *way* out of date now, and unmaintained. And better yet, there's a bunch of packages depending on it at least in F30: $ sudo dnf repoquery --whatrequires python2-notify ailurus-0:10.10.3-15.fc28.noarch audio-convert-mod-0:3.46.0b-14.fc28.noarch batti-0:0.3.8-17.fc30.noarch bitlyclip-0:0.2.2-14.fc30.noarch decibel-audio-player-0:1.08-19.fc30.noarch deluge-gtk-0:1.3.15-12.fc30.noarch earcandy-0:0.9-11.fc30.noarch fmtools-tkradio-0:2.0.7-14.fc29.noarch fmtools-tkradio-0:2.0.7-16.fc30.noarch fwbackups-0:1.43.7-6.fc29.noarch guake-0:0.8.8-7.fc30.noarch memaker-0:20100110-19.fc30.noarch nicotine+-0:1.4.1-7.fc30.noarch radiotray-0:0.7.3-13.fc30.noarch specto-0:0.4.1-15.fc29.noarch synce-gnome-0:0.11-17.fc29.noarch turpial-0:3.0-12.fc28.noarch wicd-gtk-0:1.7.4-9.fc29.noarch wuja-0:0.0.8-21.fc29.noarch (Some of those look pretty long in the tooth, too.) The good news is, there's a replacement for it, the new 'notify2' module: https://pypi.org/project/notify2/ I will work on getting this in so we could conceivably fix the existing packages. AIUI it's a drop in replacement in pure Python. Lumir, shouldn't that mean we can use Obsoletes: and Provides: together in the new package to allow those other packages to be fixed gently over time? Even better... ngompa already did the work: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python-notify2 Neal, see question above to Lumir. Is notify2 a drop in replacement, as it seems? Put Provides/Obsoletes to the new package is not a correct way here because the old python2-notify is Python-2-only and the new python3-notify is Python-3-only. What we can do here is to offer this package as a replacement to maintainers of dependent packages so when they'll be switching to Python 3 they'll know what to use. Another thing is that if you don't want to maintain the old package anymore, you can orphan it. Then all maintainers of dependent packages will be notified about it and somebody will have to take it if they would like to keep their Python 2 packages in Fedora. This will include requesting a fesco exception as described in the change. Orphaning is probably best in this case. I have it on my to-do list for tomorrow. Could you please orphan this package rather sooner than later? Should we do it for you? Done, sorry for the oversight. https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org/thread/XLEF3BM5QP7OTRXL6QORKTB7PAUJPUN4/ Automation has figured out the package is retired in rawhide. If you like it to be unretired, please open a ticket at https://pagure.io/releng/new_issue?template=package_unretirement |