Bug 1738071

Summary:	nagios-plugins-fts depends on Python 2
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Lumír Balhar <lbalhar>
Component:	nagios-plugins-fts	Assignee:	michal.simon
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	31	CC:	andrea.manzi, michal.simon
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Description Lumír Balhar 2019-08-06 12:48:44 UTC

Python 2.7 will reach end-of-life in January 2020, over 9 years after it was released. This falls within the Fedora 31 lifetime.
Packages that depend on Python 2 are being switched to Python 3 or removed from Fedora: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/F31_Mass_Python_2_Package_Removal#Information_on_Remaining_Packages
Python 2 will be retired in Fedora 32: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/RetirePython2

To help planning, we'd like to know the plans for nagios-plugins-fts's future. Specifically:


- What is the reason for the Python2 dependency? (Is it software written in Python, or does it just provide Python bindings, or use Python in the build system or test runner?) 

- What are the upstream/community plans/timelines regarding Python 3?

- What is the guidance for porting to Python 3? (Assuming that there is someone who generally knows how to port to Python 3, but doesn't know anything about the particular package, what are the next steps to take?)


This bug is filed semi-automatically, and might not have all the context specific to nagios-plugins-fts.
If you need anything from us, or something is unclear, please mention it here.

Thank you.

Comment 1 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 17:07:57 UTC

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

Comment 2 Ben Cotton 2019-08-13 17:44:42 UTC

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

Comment 3 Lumír Balhar 2019-08-14 09:01:53 UTC

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.

Comment 4 Andrea 2019-08-15 15:17:38 UTC

i have a python3 version of the component, i'm going to push it to Rawhide today/tomorrow

Comment 5 Andrea 2019-08-15 15:58:00 UTC

i pushed the python3 version of the package to Rawhide

https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=37058238

Comment 6 Lumír Balhar 2019-08-16 07:51:00 UTC

Unfortunately, the latest build nagios-plugins-fts-3.6.0-1.fc32.noarch.rpm still depends on Python 2.

As you can see in the build log, there are some files with python2 in shebang which causes the dependency on Python 2 to be automatically generated.

> mangling shebang in /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/fts/check_fts_stalled_transfers from /usr/bin/env python2 to #!/usr/bin/python2
> mangling shebang in /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/fts/check_fts_stalled_server from /usr/bin/env python2 to #!/usr/bin/python2
> mangling shebang in /usr/lib64/nagios/plugins/fts/check_fts_service from /usr/bin/env python2 to #!/usr/bin/python2

The best would be to check all the shebangs in the plugin source code. I did it and it seems that there are only these three files.

Comment 7 Andrea 2019-08-16 09:02:18 UTC

sorry i forgot about the shebangs
it should be fixed now in this build
https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/taskinfo?taskID=37068504

Comment 8 Lumír Balhar 2019-08-22 05:50:07 UTC

After the last rebuild, this package does not depend on Python 2. Thank you!