The death of rhpl

[Jiri Popelka]

On 07/29/2009 03:38 PM, Jeremy Katz wrote:
> We're hoping to be able to not ship rhpl for Fedora 12 -- this isn't
> something which is really a "feature", but it might be something that a
> heads up is useful for.  Anyone who has a package with a dependency on
> rhpl should have a bug filed, 98% of them with patches, to switch to
> using something else.
>
> If you are using rhpl and *don't* have a Requires: rhpl in your spec
> file (or are using it for something not in Fedora), here's the
> replacements for the things which were commonly used
>
> * rhpl.translate ->  Use python's gettext module.  It's a lot more
>    functional these days.  rhpl.translate was a good idea 7 years ago,
>    but not anymore :)
> * rhpl.ethtool ->  python-ethtool provides a module with similar/the same
>    API
> * rhpl.exception ->  Chris Lumens has split out a new package python-meh
>    which includes the exception handling capabilities from rhpl with the
>    added support for filing to bugzilla like anaconda does
> * rhpl.keyboard* ->  these now live in system-config-keyboard
>    
rhpl.iwlib -> python-iwlib provides a module with the same API

Jiri Popelka