libevent hasn't had any recent releases since 2.1.8. Building packages against libevent-devel will pull the Python2 stack into the buildsystem since the following commit occurred after the 2.1.8 release. Please include the following upstream commit in a bumped release: Port `event_rpcgen.py` and `test/check-dumpevents.py` to Python 3. https://github.com/libevent/libevent/commit/8b0aa7b36a3250fad4953f194c8a94ab25032583#diff-627317413ad60f20b4bce7f0352ec0a9 This should make libevent-devel not pull in Python2 when it's technically not necessary.
Hi Steve. I'm wondering if you can take a look at this if you have some time. I'm working on packaging non-Python2 things (Kamailio for one) that build against libevent-devel in preparation for Fedora 30 and it would be great to not have a Python2 stack brought into the buildsystem, isolating other potential Python2/Python3 issues in the code. Thanks.
FEDORA-2019-ee3442fd65 has been submitted as an update to Fedora 30. https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-ee3442fd65
I've applied the patch in f30..master. Please let me know if you need it in F29 as well. Note that it now pulls in python3. I hope that's fine.
Thank you. Personally, I would not need this backported to F29 since I'm not using F29 any longer.
https://github.com/libevent/libevent/releases shows the latest release as 2.1.11-stable. I'm not sure if there are other reasons to keep this at 2.1.8 in Fedora--that's up to the maintainer, but it may be easier than carrying the patches. Thank you for your fixes Ondřej. I'll starting testing with my Kamailio builds.
libevent-2.1.8-7.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 testing repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report. See https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/QA:Updates_Testing for instructions on how to install test updates. You can provide feedback for this update here: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2019-ee3442fd65
I'm planning to rebase to 2.1.11 in Rawhide only because it comes with a soname change. And while reviewing the changes in the releases > 2.1.8, I've come to the conclusion that it's probably safer to stick with 2.1.8 in earlier Fedora releases.
libevent-2.1.8-7.fc30 has been pushed to the Fedora 30 stable repository. If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.