SIGs/Python/UpstreamPythonPatches

Fedora downstream patches are tracked in the page: Python Patches. This page gives the status of the downstream patches currently maintained in the latest Python package of Fedora.

Fedora downstream patches

• https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python3.10/blob/master/f/python3.10.spec
• https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python3.10/tree/master
• Tracking issue: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1287556

00001-rpath.patch

"Fixup distutils/unixccompiler.py to remove standard library path from rpath"

=> Can be removed, but blocked by a Fedora change.

This patch is basically useless, but removing it would require to ensure that no Fedora package use rpath. See: https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/issue/886

See also: https://bugs.python.org/issue36659#msg340731

Added by: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python/c/f5df1f834310948b32407933e3b8713e1121105b (2010-03-16)

00111-no-static-lib.patch

"Don't try to build a libpythonMAJOR.MINOR.a"

Upstream: https://bugs.python.org/issue43103

Added by: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python3/c/aa4aef22cccc56ab0e7957b45209502ec487cdb1 (2010-01-18)

00251-change-user-install-location.patch

"Change user install location to /usr/local if executable is /usr/bin/python* and RPM build is not detected to make pip and distutils install into separate location."

=> Should be proposed upstream as a configure option.

Added by: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python3/c/332b947dfc8d0f0d3a4525864b121d0f239beb4d (2017-06-26)

00274-fix-arch-names.patch

"Upstream uses Debian-style architecture naming, change to match Fedora"

=> downstream only patch

Merged from several patches by: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python3/c/9423d36fb4847cc6117daea82490a188cc78ebdf (2017-08-31)

One of the originals added by: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python3/c/69d4e5d3533e4404ae7d42d537d29fd6861a8eae (2013-05-02)

00328-pyc-timestamp-invalidation-mode.patch

"Restore pyc to TIMESTAMP invalidation mode as default in rpmbuild"

=> downstream only patch

Patch related to PEP 552: Deterministic pycs implemented in Python 3.7.

• Rationale: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/redhat-rpm-config/pull-request/57#comment-27426
• Added by: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python3/c/9213c03924aeb612d1b754dbe0b4397782c6b3fb (2019-07-15)
• Need to run benchmarks to justify the downstream patch?
• Need to add a configure option to make it upstream

Merged upstream

Made upstream by Victor Stinner:

• 2021-01-20: 00189-use-rpm-wheels.patch
  • https://bugs.python.org/issue42856
  • https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/75e59a97f5d1fddb0c30ed9747b1b8cb84420a62
• 2020-03-10: 00102-lib64.patch
  • https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8510f430781118d9b603c3a2f06945d6ebc5fe42
  • https://bugs.python.org/issue1294959
  • Added by: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python/c/d4a39597bc32ab2cf84b43a3b0c71a18d1a0e0ec (2004-09-09)
• 2019-05-17: 00178-dont-duplicate-flags-in-sysconfig.patch:
  • https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python3/c/7aab0ddc87c4c8476c8077800e765e52480fbc4d?branch=master Patch simply removed since it was invalid.
  • https://bugs.python.org/issue17679 (rejected)
• 2019-05-09: 00200-gettext-plural-fix.patch (python-2.5.1-plural-fix.patch)
  • https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/afd1e6d2f0f5aaf4030d13342809ec0915dedf81
  • https://bugs.python.org/issue36239
• 2019-03-15: 00168-distutils-cflags.patch
  • https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/86082c22d23285995a32aabb491527c9f5629556 followed by other commits (see the issue)
  • https://bugs.python.org/issue36235
• 2019-03-11: 00157-uid-gid-overflows.patch
  • https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/876e82b4f32075e1bd21750bf852a103035fce23
  • https://bugs.python.org/issue36234
• 2018-12-18: 00155-avoid-ctypes-thunks.patch: Remove ctypes callback workaround
  • https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/e6b247c8e524dbe5fc03b3492f628d0d5348bc49
  • https://bugs.python.org/issue35523
• 2018-10-25: _PyObject_ASSERT(), Dave Malcolm's patch (2010):
  • Multiple commits: see the issue
  • https://bugs.python.org/issue9263
• 2018-10-17: "python -m cProfile -s" error message, Robert Kuska's patch (2015):
  • https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/fcd5e84a515e19409840c570730f0728e9fcfc83
  • https://bugs.python.org/issue23420
• 2018-10-16: 00190-gdb-py-bt-dont-raise-exception-from-eval.patch
  • https://bugs.python.org/issue34989
  • https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/aadb44ee98bc73bc5132acea5848ac6aef1ff8c0
• 2018-10-15: 00190-gdb-py-bt-dont-raise-exception-from-eval.patch
  • https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/2e438cc2554495b28480a3ffe5cdf41b6ab823a0
  • https://bugs.python.org/issue34989
• 2017-02-10: 00153-fix-test_gdb-noise.patch
  • https://github.com/python/cpython/commit/8420cd29053106f97b7d27dcc288882ffea3c1c5

Other:

• 2018-01-29: 00294-define-TLS-cipher-suite-on-build-time.patch
  • https://bugs.python.org/issue31429 made upstream by Christian Heimes

History

• python3.10:
  • 2021-02-16: 4 patches (Python 3.10.0a5)
• python39:
  • 2020-03-05: 7 patches (Python 3.9.0a4)
  • 2020-02-17: 9 patches but 2 are backports (340 and 341), can be removed from next Python 3.9.0a4
• python38:
  • 2019-06-19: 8 patches
  • 2019-04-23: 9 patches
  • 2019-02-07: 12 patches
  • 2018-11-08: 20 patches
• python3 (currently Python 3.7):
  • 2019-04-02: 11 patches
  • 2019-03-07: 15 patches
  • 2018-07-12: 18 patches
  • 2018-05-10: 15 patches
• python2 (Python 2.7):
  • 2019-05-17: 53 patches
  • 2019-03-07: 55 patches

Count patches::

   $ ls *.patch|wc -l
   55
   $ grep -c '^Patch[0-9]\+:' python*.spec
   55