> On Feb 9, 2026, at 1:37 PM, Guido Falsi <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I'll take the risk of prodding the wasp nest related to python version
> upgrade.
>
> I'm forced to do this as the maintainer of deskutils/calibre.
>
> Tat project has recently released a new major version with and hard
> requirement of python 3.14 or newer [1]. It uses new constructs and imports
> in multiple places, as much as needed to make the "hack it to work with 3.11"
> strategy not viable (short of of creating a full fork of the software).
>
> So my question, which is not a demand, but just a request for information I
> did not find elsewhere:
>
> Is there any effort underway to update the python default to a newer version?
>
> Also, apart from that, as I explain in [1], if I simply put USES=python:3.14+
> in the Makefile, the port fails to build due to many of its requirements
> failing to provide a py-314 flavor. Is there any work on this front?
>
> I ask to know if there is some effort I can join and maybe help, although I'm
> not a python expert.
Also, 3.11 currently shows in pkg audit (Hi, we operate critical internet
infrastructure, this affects us, we have auditors to answer who question our
decisions to deploy software with known CVE's), and the python project has not
seen the urgency in releasing a 3.11.15, even though it's currently in a
"security patches only" state -- um, this would be that, please do the needful!
I've been in touch with the release maintainers there, but there's not a
perceived sense of urgency here, and of course, in BSD-land, everything's
nailed to 3.11.
If other people are in touch with the python folks, this would probably be a
good sentiment to echo.
Is there some way dayjob can help with this?
-Dan
