The libreswan-3.21-1.fc27 RPM requires both Python 2 and Python 3. Except in very special circumstances, there is no need for one package to drag in both Python stacks. Usually, this is a packaging error: for example, a stray "/usr/bin/python" shebang in a Python 3 package can introduce a Python 2 dependency. Please split your package, or remove the stray dependencies. There is a section on shebangs in the Python RPM Porting Guide [0] which covers this issue. It's ok to do this in Rawhide only, however, it would be greatly appreciated if you could push it to Fedora 26 as well. If anything is unclear, or if you need any kind of assistance, you can ask on IRC (#fedora-python on Freenode), or reply here. We'll be happy to help investigating or fixing this issue! [0] http://python-rpm-porting.readthedocs.io/en/latest/application-modules.html#are-shebangs-dragging-you-down-to-python-2
This bug appears to have been reported against 'rawhide' during the Fedora 27 development cycle. Changing version to '27'.
I created a Pagure PR that fixes the both Python2 and Python 3 requests: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libreswan/pull-request/1 May I ask to review and rebuild? Thanks.
Hello Paul, please, may I ask for your feedback?
I will add the patch, but I really dislike it. Why is it libreswan's problem? If we use #!/usr/bin/python then the OS/distro should deal with using whatever default python they use. It should end up with 2 or 3. We don't really care.
Fedora's default Python is named /usr/bin/python3, while the unversioned name is tied up in a backwards compatibility quagmire. The problem is that /usr/bin/python is not used only by the distro, but also by users. Changing it will break everything with that shebang -- except things that are written and tested to work on both versions. The medium-term plan is to let users configure if "/usr/bin/python" refers to 2 or 3. The short-term plan leading up to that is to change all system packages to specify the version explicitly, so that we don't need to test/support each piece of software with multiple interpreters, and so that an extra Python 2 stack isn't installed if it's not needed. Fedora packages are something we have some degree of control over, as opposed to user scripts, so that's what we want to change. Sorry that libreswan ended up at the wrong end of this.
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$ dnf repoquery --repo=rawhide --requires libreswan | grep py /usr/bin/python3