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.
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
Added by: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python/c/f5df1f834310948b32407933e3b8713e1121105b (2010-03-16)
00102-lib64.patch
"Use /usr/lib64 instead of /usr/lib on 64-bit systems"
=> Should be made upstream.
- Upstream issue: https://bugs.python.org/issue1294959
- Upstream PR 1: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/11755 by Charalampos Stratakis
- Upstream PR 2: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/8068 by Matěj Cepl
- Added by: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python/c/d4a39597bc32ab2cf84b43a3b0c71a18d1a0e0ec (2004-09-09)
00111-no-static-lib.patch
"Don't try to build a libpythonMAJOR.MINOR.a"
Downstream only: not appropriate for upstream.
Added by: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python3/c/aa4aef22cccc56ab0e7957b45209502ec487cdb1 (2010-01-18)
00189-use-rpm-wheels.patch
"instead of bundled wheels, use our RPM packaged wheels. We keep them in /usr/share/python-wheels."
=> downstream only patch
Added by: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python3/c/0b241abda6b7f8d4b092974cecd11d9660fa7b83 (2018-08-15)
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."
=> downstream only patch
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
Added by: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/python3/c/9423d36fb4847cc6117daea82490a188cc78ebdf (2017-08-31)
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.