Tagging with meeting so we can vote about this on next meeting.

If I'm absent, count me as +1 obviously.

This seems correct, but is the line "NOTE: You can opt-in for this behavior on Fedora 29 by setting +%global _python_bytecompile_extra 0+ in the spec." correct? It seems that should read "Fedora 30 or newer". Or maybe I'm just confused about what the current state is.

Fun tip: install the Asciidoctor browser extension from https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-browser-extension and when you click on the raw view in pagure you will get formatted output. It won't exactly match the final result after Antora renders it, but it's a quick way to look.

Fedora 30 and newer has the new behavior (_python_bytecompile_extra is set to 0 by default). Fedora 29 has the ability to opt in for the new behavior (_python_bytecompile_extra is set to 1 by default, but you can set it to 0 in spec). Everything older has just the old behavior (the _python_bytecompile_extra variable does not exist and the behavior is hardcoded).

Of course one can technically also opt in for the old behavior by setting _python_bytecompile_extra to 1 explicitly, but i didn't want to put that into the guidelines.

You're right, of course; this issue is just so confusing because we didn't just flip the switch back in the beginning. At least it's getting done now.

+1

We talked about this at this weeks meeting: https://meetbot-raw.fedoraproject.org/fedora-meeting-1/2018-11-29/fpc.2018-11-29-17.00.txt

• #830 Update Python manual byte compilation rules (geppetto, 17:12:37)
• ACTION: Update Python manual byte compilation rules (+1:6, 0:0,
  -1:0) (geppetto, 17:16:55)

I merged this in the meeting.

Announcement text:

The python packaging guidelines have been updated to indicate the changed default in Fedora 30 for %_python_bytecompile_extra (to 0). This setting controls whether python files outside of the regular locations for python modules are subject to automatic byte compilation.

• https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/Python_Appendix/#manual-bytecompilation
• https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/c/647454105e873c15ce0c5e10cfad37aae8a50225?branch=master
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/No_more_automagic_Python_bytecompilation_phase_2

(can't announce currently as the updated docs aren't actually live)

Link to the draft
https://pagure.io/packaging-committee/pull-request/829
Explanation
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/No_more_automagic_Python_bytecompilation_phase_2