On Sat, Jun 7, 2014 at 5:36 AM, Donald Stufft <don...@stufft.io> wrote: > Well it’d contain bug fixes and whatever other sorts of things you’d put > into a 2.7.whatever release. So they’d still want to upgrade to 2.8 since > that’ll have bug fixes.
But it's not a potentially-breaking change. For example, on Debian Wheezy, there are a huge number of packages that depend on "python (<< 2.8)", because they expect Python 2.7 and *not* Python 2.8. A newer version 2.7 will satisfy that; a version 2.8 won't, because it's entirely possible that 2.8 will have something that's significantly different. That's what version numbers mean; Python follows the standard three-part convention, where you upgrade automatically only within the last part of the number. ChrisA _______________________________________________ Python-Dev mailing list Python-Dev@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-dev Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com
