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Fedora 29 Accepted System Wide Changes Proposals

These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 29 Release as System Wide Changes.

BINUTILS 2.30

Rebase the binutils package from version 2.29 .1 to version 2.30. This will bring in bug-fixes and some new features.

Owners

• Owner: Nick Clifton
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2018-03-04
• Tracking bug: #1551329
• Status: Change accepted

Make dbus-broker the default DBus implementation

Enable dbus-broker.service to use dbus-broker as system and session message bus backend.

Owners

• Owner: Tom Gundersen
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2018-03-19
• Tracking bug: #1557954
• Status: Change accepted

FedoraScientific VagrantBox

Fedora Scientific is currently delivered as ISOs. Shipping vagrant boxes will give potential users a friendlier option to try out Fedora Scientific while keeping their current operating system.

Owners

• Owner: Amit Saha
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2018-03-04
• Tracking bug: #1551321
• Status: Change accepted

Let's Label Our Variants!

Start using the VARIANT and VARIANT_ID fields in /usr/lib/os-release (and therefore the /etc/os-release symlink) for Spins, Labs and the base container image rather than just the main Fedora Editions.

Owners

• Owner: Mohan Boddu
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2018-05-28
• Tracking bug: #1582627
• Status: Change accepted

Move /usr/bin/python into a separate package

Reflecting the recent changes of PEP 394 -- The "python" Command on Unix-Like Systems, we are moving /usr/bin/python from the python2 package into a separate package called python-unversioned-command. python2 will recommend this package.

Owners

• Owner: Miro Hrončok
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2018-06-04
• Tracking bug: #1585626
• Status: Change accepted

Perl Move to MetaCPAN

search.cpan.org web frontend for CPAN is being replaced by metacpan.org. Many Perl RPM packages refer to search.cpan.org. This Fedora change aims to mass-update URL and Source RPM tags in affected Perl packages.

Owners

• Owner: Petr Písař
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2018-06-04
• Tracking bug: #1585624
• Status: Change accepted

Python 3.7

Update the Python 3 stack in Fedora from Python 3.6 to Python 3.7.

Owners

• Owner: Petr Viktorin
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2018-05-29
• Tracking bug: #1565020
• Status: Change accepted

Remove GCC from BuildRoot

Removing gcc and gcc-c++ from default buildroot in Koji and mock.

Owners

• Owner: Igor Gnatenko
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2018-03-04
• Tracking bug: #1551327
• Status: Change accepted

Ruby on Rails 5.2

Ruby on Rails 5.2 is the latest version of well known web framework written in Ruby.

Owners

• Owner: Pavel Valena, Vít Ondruch, Jun Aruga
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2018-05-03
• Tracking bug: #1565022
• Status: Change accepted

The tzdata transition to 'vanguard' format

As of tzdata-2018e, the upstream will now default to using the 'vanguard' data format including negative DST offsets. As a fall-back, the 'rearguard' data format is still available on F28, F27 and F26.

Owners

• Owner: Patsy Franklin
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2018-05-14
• Tracking bug: #1585628
• Status: Change accepted

Perl 5.28

A new perl 5.28 version brings a lot of changes done over a year of development. Perl 5.28 will be released 5/28/2018. See 5.28.0 perldelta for more details about preparing release.

Owners

• Owner: Petr Písař
• Release notes owner:

Tracking

• Last updated: 2018-06-04
• Tracking bug: #1585629
• Status: Change accepted

Category:ChangeAcceptedF29 and Category:SystemWideChange

Fedora 29 Accepted Self Contained Changes Proposals

These changes have been accepted by the Fedora Engineering Steering Committee for the Fedora 29 Release as Self Contained Changes.

Ansible python3 default

Ansible started out as a python2 only application, but in recent years a large amount of work has gone into porting things to python3. Last year, the Fedora ansible package started shipping a ansible-python3 allowing users to switch to python3 on the control host easily if they wished, but left the default as python2. Now in Fedora 29, the default will be switched and the python3 version will be the only version shipped.

• Owner: Kevin Fenzi
• Last updated: 2018-04-09
• Completed: yes - #1565026

Drop Legacy GTK+ GUI in wireshark

Owner

• Owner: Michal Ruprich
• Last updated: 2018-03-04
• Completed: no - #1551325

MySQL 8

Update of MySQL ( community-mysql package) in Fedora from 5.7 to 8.0 version.

• Owner: Michal Schorm
• Last updated: 2018-05-28
• Completed: no - #1582618

No more automagic Python bytecompilation

The current way of automatic Python byte-compiling of files outside Python-specific directories is too magical and error-prone. It is built on heuristics that are increasingly wrong. We will provide a way to opt-out of it and adjust the guidelines to prefer explicit bytecompilation of such files. Later, the old behavior will be opt-in only or will cease to exist.

• Owner: Petr Viktorin
• Last updated: 2018-05-28
• Completed: no - #1551326

OpenLDAP: Drop MozNSS Compatibility Layer

Since Fedora 28, OpenLDAP is compiled with OpenSSL instead of NSS and includes MozNSS Compatiblity Layer (i.e. TLSMC) to assure backwards compatiblity. After this change the TLSMC will be removed.

• Owner: Matus Honek
• Last updated: 2018-03-19
• Completed: no - #1557967

True Noarch Erlang Packages

Erlang packages are currently all installed into %{_libdir}/erlang/lib, despite most of them being noarch packages. This proposal is to modify Erlang to search %{_datadir}/erlang/lib in addition to %{_libdir}/erlang/lib when searching for dependencies.

• Owner: Randy Barlow
• Last updated: 2018-03-04
• Completed: yes - #1434311

Category:ChangeAcceptedF29 and Category:SelfContainedChange