On Tue, 21 Aug 2018 at 13:24, Miro Hrončok <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 13.8.2018 11:49, Larry Hastings wrote on [email protected]: > > We of the core dev community commit to supporting Python releases for > > five years. Releases get eighteen months of active bug fixes, followed > > by three and a half years of security fixes. Python 3.4 turns 5 next > > March--at which point we'll stop supporting it, and I'll retire as 3.4 > > release manager. > > > > My plan is to make one final release on or around its fifth birthday > > containing the last round of security fixes. That's about seven > > months from now. > > See also PEP 429 -- Python 3.4 Release Schedule [0]. > > We have python34 and python36 in EPEL7. python34 being the "main" one > and python36 the "other" one. The original plan [1] was that once the > ecosystem is adapted well enough, we can switch what "main" and "other" > is and eventually drop python34, creating room for maybe another python3 > release to be the "other" next (python38 maybe?). Originally this was > supposed to happen for each release [2], but this was later abandoned > due to lack of manpower. > > Do we want to ever switch "main" with "other"? The problem here is: > > $ dnf repoquery --repo=epel7 --whatrequires 'python(abi) = 3.4' | > pkgname | sort | uniq | wc -l > 243 > > $ dnf repoquery --repo=epel7 --whatrequires 'python(abi) = 3.6' | > pkgname | sort | uniq | wc -l > 15 > > The original idea is that all packages would have the python3_other > macros in them [2] and all we need is rebuild everything in proper > order, maybe with some bootstrapping. However that never happened and > most of the packages I've seen lack the python3_other bits (no > statistics, just my impression). > > Is this something we want? If so, are the packagers willing to adapt > their packages (as much as I'd like to do this, I lack the resources to > hack on 228 packages)? > > The Python Maint team in Red Hat is here to help. However the drive > would need to come from the EPEL community, as now we are only guessing > what are the needs here.
Understood. What are the groups initial recommendations for us to follow? I agree we need to have this done this fall/winter. [AKA I would like to say python34 will be removed by whatever EL7.x release comes out next.] -- Stephen J Smoogen. _______________________________________________ epel-devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/MSHJYCMZVCJVYILPJGRU5POXYJPIREZE/
