Hi, 1. Python 3.5 is going EOL upstream in <1 year. I suppose we'll be removing it from Gentoo at approximately the same time.
2. Python 3.5 & 3.6 are both security fix only. We should switch stable to 3.7 ASAP. If you have a stake in this, please test it and let us know if there are any deal breakers. 3. 3.8.0 was released, and traditionally our patches don't apply. If someone feels like rebasing them and bumping it, that would be cool. 4. There's the open question of switching USE flag from 'python3_8' to 'python3-8'. The latter gives us a chance of getting rid of underscores in ~5 years (that's my guess). We can make the eclass implicitly translate between '_' and '-' everywhere to avoid making the API irritating. 5. Python 2.7. With the EOL postponed, it seems some people are pushing even more aggressively towards killing it. I think we'll stay with the pragmatic approach of leaving it working as long as upstreams support it but removing it whenever stuff is dead or semi-dead. 6. Do we really care for gentoo-python@ ml? It's one mail every few months, so I guess we could just spam the generic -dev list instead. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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