[Fedora-packaging] Python Virtual Provides

[Jeremy Katz]

On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 16:39 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> Jeremy Katz wrote:
> > On Mon, 2008-06-16 at 14:30 -0400, Toshio Kuratomi wrote:
> >> I've added Python Virtual Provides to the list of draft guidelines.
> >> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Python
> > [snip]
> >> The motivation for this is that David Malcolm (dmalcolm) wrote a proof 
> >> of concept script to show how easy it would be to extract egg dependency 
> >> information as part of the rpm build process.
> > 
> > To help maintain the sanity of everyone building packages, can't we just
> > auto-generate these?  I know there's the old patch floating around
> > somewhere for python deps that we should be using but haven't yet
> > instituted.  And extending that to work with eggs also seems to make
> > sense.  And then we avoid everyone having to add stuff to their spec
> > files
> > 
> Err, that's why I said the motivation for this was that Dave Malcolm 
> wrote a script to do that for eggs :-)

If it's being done automatically, it's not really packaging policy --
it's just part of things working :)

Jeremy