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
Hello Jasper, 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
Jasper is not working on Fedora anymore, but this package is also not very important and should probably be allowed to die unless some other desktop wants to ship it (the workstation doesn't anymore)
Hi Matthias, is there some recommended alternative to this package people should switch to so I could indicate so in the PortingDB for Fedora [0], and mark this package as dropped for future versions of Fedora? [0] http://fedora.portingdb.xyz/ Thank you for your time!
The functionality it provides (editing menu files) is not used in GNOME 3. Other desktops, like Mate, may still use menu files. They may or may not have a fork of alacarte. I don't know.
Jasper, if you do not work on Fedora any more, could you to orphan the package here? https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/package/rpms/alacarte/ This would leave it to get taken over by any interested maintainer, if one exists, or to die. Orphaning a package properly also involves sending a mail to fedora-devel. I can do that for you if you don't want to deal with it.
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 25 development cycle. Changing version to '25'.
I've started to pull together a python3 version of this package. Upstream didn't quite support python3, so I've initiated a github pull request ( https://github.com/GNOME/alacarte/pull/5 ). Once that is accepted I'll see if they will be willing to kick out an updated release. Note that I routinely use this application in Gnome 3 to create custom menu shortcuts, so I'm not sure about the statement of it not being useful.
Apparently GitHub pull requests are not the way to contribute to alacarte. So I opened a bug and attached a patch in the gnome bugzilla instance at https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787490
Looking more deeply at upstream, it seems unlikely there is anyone willing to review and take in the patch that I submitted. A GNOME developer even referred to it as "unmaintained old software" [0]. So while the py3 support patch is trivial [1], and the app does still work for its intended purpose, it may be a good candidate to let drop. Especially since 'menulibre' is a (somewhat) newer alternative, which already supports python3 and has fewer dependencies. I still disagree with Matthias' comment that the functionality is not useful in GNOME3 :), but menulibre more than covers the need. [0]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787786 [1]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/attachment.cgi?id=359454&action=diff
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Please retire alacarte form Fedora or maintain the Python compatibility downstream. This is still relevant.
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This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 30 development cycle. Changing version to '30.
What's the status?
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.
The package was retired: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/alacarte/c/ab13c1a0cb18286c1b5c3a8145c557bbc80d5047?branch=master
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