rpm.org python dependency generator

[Jan Rękorajski]

On Fri, 26 Feb 2021, Jan Rękorajski wrote:

> On Fri, 26 Feb 2021, Jakub Bogusz wrote:
> 
> > What about python provides change (python3egg vs python3dist, probably
> > similarly for python2)?
> > 
> > While python3 packaged will be rebuilt anyway due to python 3.9, there
> > is no need to rebuild python2 packages (other than provides scheme
> > change).
> 
> I'm inclined to switch. We don't use those deps in *Requires, and since
> we already have to rebuild ~1000 packages for python3 upgrade, we can as
> well rebuild everything. A side effect will be rpm.org ecosystem
> compatible dependencies.

One more thing, rpm5 had directory dependencies, while rpm.org does not,
so those versioned pythonX.Ydist() deps are the way forward to figure
out that we need a version related update.

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