Inform DNF dependents that switch to DNF 5 has been postponed

[evan-goode]

Follow-up to #418. Many users of DNF already changed their spec to depend on dnf5 in Fedora 39+, but these changes now should be reverted or changed to Fedora 41+.

These dependents should be informed that DNF 5 is not going to replace DNF 4 as the default package manager until (likely) Fedora 41.

We also should advertise https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/rpmsoftwaremanagement/dnf5-testing/.

List of dependents:

• auter
  • Prepare for DNF 5 rackerlabs/auter#245
• calamares
  • Prepare for DNF 5 calamares/calamares#2145
• copr-builder
  • copr-builder: don't depend on dnf fedora-copr/copr#2739
  • copr-builder should be fine, all they changed was to additionally require DNF 5
• dnf-plugin-diff
  • Depend on python3-dnf, not dnf praiskup/dnf-plugin-diff#1
  • No action needed
• dnfdragora
  • Prepare for DNF 5 manatools/dnfdragora#214
• etckeeper-dnf
  • https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/etckeeper/pull-request/6
• fedora-review
  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209416
  • No action required, still depends on DNF
• fedora-upgrade
  • Require DNF 5 in Fedora >= 41, not Fedora > 38 xsuchy/fedora-upgrade#46
• kiwi-systemdeps-core
  • Require DNF 5 in Fedora >= 41, not Fedora > 38 OSInside/kiwi#2353
• libdnf-plugin-subscription-manager
  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209387
  • No action required, depends on python3-dnf
• lpf
  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209396
• mock
  • Prepare for DNF 5, don't depend on dnf mock#1084
  • Suggest dnf5 in Fedora 41+, not Fedora 38+ mock#1185
• osbuild
  • Prepare for DNF 5, don't depend on dnf osbuild/osbuild#1315
• perl-CPAN-Plugin-Sysdeps
  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209402
  • Change was made but now reverted in F39
• policycoreutils-devel
  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209404
• rbm
  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209405
  • Change was made but now reverted in F39
• rpmdistro-repoquery
  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209408
  • No action needed
• subscription-manager
  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209411
• supermin, supermin-devel
  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209412
  • Fixed already in https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/supermin/c/b394af62b0292e4243354236eb984218be48499f?branch=rawhide
• system-config-language
  • https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2209413

[jan-kolarik]

Probably also ansible as they were recently also adding a dnf5 module, right?

[evan-goode]

Probably also ansible as they were recently also adding a dnf5 module, right?

Thanks, I posted to their mailing list. They shouldn't need to make any packaging changes; ansible depends on neither dnf nor dnf5, they detect which package manager to use at runtime.

[evan-goode]

OK, I've checked in with each project. The important PRs to watch are:

• Require DNF 5 in Fedora >= 41, not Fedora > 38 OSInside/kiwi#2353
• Require DNF 5 in Fedora >= 41, not Fedora > 38 xsuchy/fedora-upgrade#46

They changed their specs to depend on dnf5 in F39+, but hopefully we can revert that before Fedora 39 goes GA.