On Tuesday, 24 March 2020 12.40.24 WET Miro Hrončok wrote:
We would like ro rename the "python3" component (SRPM) to "python39" to make maintaining various Python versions in various Fedora versions easier. The names of binary RPMs would be unchanged; you still do `dnf install python3`.
The change should only affect packagers of Python itself; not users or packagers of software written in Python. The only user-visible or general-packager-visible change is a different component (SRPM) name.
That seems like a good idea. What about bugzilla? Will it follow the renaming? That means that we need to know the python version (not difficult I admit) to know the component where to submit the bug report.
What about the upgrade path? Will it be preserved. Case: assume that I install python39 for F33. Then in F35 will it upgrade all the python39* to python310*? Or will the python39 remain installed?
There is some work to be done here although IMHO I agree that it is worth. :-)
Regards,