Bug 1323261 - nut: Provide a Python 3 subpackage
Summary: nut: Provide a Python 3 subpackage
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: nut
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michal Hlavinka
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2016-04-01 16:19 UTC by Tomas Orsava
Modified: 2016-06-23 09:03 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2016-06-22 15:50:50 UTC
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Description Tomas Orsava 2016-04-01 16:19:13 UTC
Upstream, this software supports Python 3. Please provide a Python 3
package for Fedora.


According to the Python packaging guidelines [0], software must be
packaged for Python 3 if upstream supports it.
The guidelines give detailed information on how to do this, and even
provide an example spec file [1].

The current best practice is to provide subpackages for the two Python
versions (called "Common SRPM" in the guidelines). Alternatively, if
nothing depends on your Python2 package, you can just switch to Python 3
entirely.

It's ok to do this in Rawhide only, however, it would be greatly
appreciated if you could push it to Fedora 24 as well.


If anything is unclear, or if you need any kind of assistance with the
porting, you can ask on IRC (#fedora-python on Freenode), or reply here.
We'll be happy to help!


[0] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python
[1] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python#Example_common_spec_file

Comment 1 Dominika Krejčí 2016-04-22 16:28:01 UTC
Hello Michal,

Do you need any help adding Python 3 support to the RPM?

If you need more instructions, a [guide] for porting Python-based RPMs is available.

[guide] http://python-rpm-porting.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

Comment 2 Michal Hlavinka 2016-04-26 11:33:59 UTC
(In reply to Tomas Orsava from comment #0)
> Upstream, this software supports Python 3.

incorrect

PyNUT module supports python3. I'm not aware of anything that uses it except nut-monitor itself, which is python2 only. Also it uses other modules that are not available in python3, for example it uses pygtk

Comment 3 Tomas Orsava 2016-04-26 12:50:50 UTC
Our tools are detecting a Python 2 dependency in the `nut-client` submodule. Are you sure upstream does not support Python 3 for that submodule?

If not, I apologize for the mistaken bug filing.

Thank you for your time!

Comment 4 Petr Viktorin (pviktori) 2016-04-26 13:13:35 UTC
I found that /usr/share/nut/nut-monitor/nut-monitor has a "#!/usr/bin/env python" shebang. This would cause the dependency on Python 2.

Comment 5 Michal Hlavinka 2016-04-26 13:22:37 UTC
That's not the problem. It has 

> import gtk, gtk.glade, gobject

which AFAIK can't be satisfied with python3


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