Hi Andrey, On Mon, Feb 06, 2023 at 11:53:33AM +0100, Andrey Rakhmatullin wrote: > On Sun, Feb 05, 2023 at 01:50:34PM +0000, Julian Gilbey wrote: > > Our social contract #4 says "Our priorities are our users and free > > software". What benefits would having the python3.10 base packages in > > bookworm bring for our users (as I point out, for some users, this is > > a necessity) and what disadvantages would it bring (none that I can > > think of)? Why would we tell a whole bunch of our users: "Don't > > upgrade to Debian 12 until all of the critical packages you use from > > PyPI are upgraded to support Python 3.11, or fix those packages > > yourself"? > The next obvious step for these use cases is to just install 3.10 with > pyenv.
Oh, that's brilliant! I didn't know about this tool (and I note it's not currently in Debian). This solution for users who need Python 3.10, together with the support burden of having python3.10 in bookworm (which I hadn't appreciated), I withdraw my objection to the removal of python3.10. Best wishes, Julian