On 11/14/2016 06:07 PM, Jeffrey Johnson wrote:
> 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.

The usage case is that Yocto Project is replacing smartpm with dnf.

Dnf can (still) be configured to use Python 2, but we strongly prefer to 
use Python 3 from the beginning.

Alex