> On Nov 14, 2016, at 10:32 AM, Alexander Kanavin <alexander.kanavin@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 
>> rpm-python was converted to python3 (and generally blue-printed against
>> the rpm.org python module) at least 1 year ago afaik.
>> 
>> Meanwhile, no one has tried to compile/use rpm-python with python3. There’s surely some bugs.
>> 
>> hth
>> 
>> 73 de Jeff
> 
> I have tried this just now, and unfortunately I am getting compile errors when trying to build against Python 3 (this is an excerpt, the whole thing is longer):
> 
> | ../../rpm-5.4.15/python/rpmfts-py.c: In function ‘rpmfts_debug’:
> | ../../rpm-5.4.15/python/rpmfts-py.c:79:57: error: ‘rpmftsObject {aka struct rpmftsObject_s}’ has no member named ‘ob_refcnt’
> |   fprintf(stderr, " %u %d ftsp %p fts %p\n", (unsigned) s->ob_refcnt, s->active, s->ftsp, s->fts);
> |                                                          ^~
> | ../../rpm-5.4.15/python/rpmfts-py.c: At top level:
> | ../../rpm-5.4.15/python/rpmfts-py.c:504:3: error: ‘cmpfunc’ undeclared here (not in a function)
> |   (cmpfunc)0,   /* tp_compare */
> |    ^~~~~~~
> | ../../rpm-5.4.15/python/rpmfts-py.c:504:11: error: expected ‘}’ before numeric constant
> |   (cmpfunc)0,   /* tp_compare */
> |            ^
> | ../../rpm-5.4.15/python/rpmdebug-py.c: In function ‘lbl’:
> | ../../rpm-5.4.15/python/rpmdebug-py.c:38:24: error: ‘PyBuffer_Type’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> |      if (o->ob_type == &PyBuffer_Type) return "Buffer";
> |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> | ../../rpm-5.4.15/python/rpmdebug-py.c:38:24: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
> | ../../rpm-5.4.15/python/rpmdebug-py.c:40:24: error: ‘PyCObject_Type’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> |      if (o->ob_type == &PyCObject_Type) return "CObject";
> |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> | ../../rpm-5.4.15/python/rpmdebug-py.c:42:24: error: ‘PyClass_Type’ undeclared (first use in this function)
> |      if (o->ob_type == &PyClass_Type) return "Class";
> |                         ^~~~~~~~~~~~
> | ../../rpm-5.4.15/python/rpmmodule.c:460:13: error: ‘PyTypeObject {aka struct _typeobject}’ has no member named ‘ob_type’; did you mean ‘ob_base’?
> |      hdr_Type.ob_type = &PyType_Type;
> |              ^
> 

You were warned:

>> Meanwhile, no one has tried to compile/use rpm-python with python3. There’s surely some bugs.

Meanwhile — in order to finish rpm-python3 — there needs to be some usage case.

On a random Fedora 24 installation, I see the following packages using rpm-python3:

$ rpm -q --whatrequires rpm-python3
rpmconf-1.0.16-2.fc24.noarch
python3-dnf-1.1.10-1.fc24.noarch
rpmlint-1.9-3.fc24.noarch
setroubleshoot-server-3.3.11-1.fc24.x86_64
mock-1.2.21-1.fc24.noarch

Which of those packages is of interest to you?

Offhand, I don’t see any important applications there that MUST have rpm-python3.

73 de Jeff