On 02/08/2024 20:07, Simon McVittie wrote: > On Fri, 02 Aug 2024 at 19:40:59 +0800, Blair Noctis wrote: >> Even today, 2 Aug 2024, is 2 months from the effective date. Please >> file bugreports/issues to ask the packages you care about to migrate. > > I agree with this part of what you said. > > But, not this part: > >> Also, even python3.11 is still there. Sure someone needing something expunged >> from 3.13 would be fine staying with 3.12? > > In unstable, yes, at least temporarily; but not forever (and 3.11 has > already disappeared from testing). > > Also, many Debian developers think of our stable releases as being our > primary deliverable, with testing/unstable only being a tool that we > use to make the next stable release. In stable, we generally only have > one version of Python (for example Debian 12 has Python 3.11 and no > other version), because the Python maintainers and other core teams do not > have the resources to security-support more than one branch for 3 years.
Sorry, I daily drive unstable and overlooked that part. My apologies. Though as you said, current stable bookworm/12 has 3.11, which definitely has those modules; next stable trixie/13 might have 3.13, but it would be frozen in 2025, by then we should have worked this out. -- Sdrager, Blair Noctis
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