On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 08:49:06AM +0000, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Julian (2022.08.14_07:41:26_+0000) > > I don't know how many packages in Debian would be broken by the move > > to 3.0.0; that may be something worth exploring. It may well be that > > approach (2) makes most sense for the short term. > > I think that's the first question to answer. Once we know how bad > the incompatibilities are, we can decide on the best approach. > > So, first step is probably to package the new cython version (locally), > and try to rebuild everything against it.
That sounds sensible, indeed, once the beta is released. As cython is used quite widely (240 packages or so in testing), I wonder whether it would be appropriate to upload it to experimental and ask Lucas to run the test builds across the archive? Best wishes, Julian