On Thu, 2025-12-04 at 19:34 +0100, Michał Górny wrote: > Hello, everyone. > > Just a heads up: Django 6.0 (already released) and NumPy 2.4.0 (at rc1) > are removing Python 3.11 support. They're not the first packages to do > that, but they are the ones that will have some major impact. >
Now dev-python/sphinx (RC) joined the list, and this is becoming a growing nuisance. That said, there's still a few packages that require Python 3.11 explicitly. I've last-rited these with no relevant activity today. The main problem is a huge number of reverse dependencies. Admittedly, for many of them I could just revbump or otherwise provide an upgrade path, but given the number, it's a lot of work, and I don't see much benefit to it. So the way I see it, we have two options: 1. I spent a lot of effort aggressively removing Python 3.11 from reverse dependencies of these packages, and leave Python 3.11 support where it still can be kept. 2. I remove Python 3.11 everywhere except for the few packages that still need it. I think at this point 2. is much less work, and I don't see much reason to go through the humongous effort for 1. The second option will also mean removing PyPy3.11 support entirely. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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