[Rdo-list] [packaging] heads-ups about python packaging guidelines

Hi, Fedora python guidelines have been updated with newer macros, affecting some of our base dependencies. To keep our packaging consistent and avoid error-prone workarounds to support both Fedora and CentOS, I collected these in a rdo-rpm-macros. https://github.com/hguemar/rdo-rpm-macros/ between targets and simplify OpenStack packaging. It has been added to CBS buildroot by alphacc (search for rdo-rpm-macros: http://cbs.centos.org/kojifiles/work/tasks/2021/32021/root.log) Some recommendations: * drop all the workarounds * if you're updating an existing package (ie: python-xxx) python2-xxx should obsolete python-xxx to avoid upgrade issues Obsoletes: python-xxx <= <last version in fedora rawhide or CBS> * new package: take care that we provides the proper name of the package and not python-%{pypi_name} Looks like pyp2rpm does not fix it for you. * for new dependencies: prefer using python2-xxx instead of python-xxx as default version of python may change in the future. Please do *not* rush in changing all deps, keep existing requires! Our priority should be stabilizing RDO Liberty now. This will be done in Mitaka cycle. Regards, H.