On Fri, May 27, 2022 at 11:35 AM Miro Hrončok <mhron...@redhat.com> wrote: > > On 27. 05. 22 14:34, Neal Gompa wrote: > > While unfortunate, I think it makes sense to retire Python 3.7 when > > Debian 10 goes EOL. > > I don't understand why do you consider this unfortunate. >
The situation is unfortunate, not the result. > > I think the larger question is how do we write > > down a multi-Python maintenance policy to codify this? > > It has been so far implicitly (but indeed not written) somehow like this: > > "We keep a Python version in Fedora as long as: > > 1) A "significant enough" platform that our users could be deploying into runs > that Python version. That has always been at least RHEL, Debian and Ubuntu > LTS. > > 2) It is bearable for the maintainers." > > 1 means we drop it when it's no longer useful. > 2 means we drop when we cannot longer make it work with the current resources. > > > The implicit > > assumption here is that we're going to be able to leverage security > > support work in other distributions to keep other Python runtimes > > alive, but I don't think we've got that written down anywhere. > > At least for RHEL, we still use Fedora as upstream for our patches. So as long > as a Python is supported in RHEL, we would (in most cases) try to fix Fedora > together with RHEL. > > For upstream EOLed Pythons that are not in RHEL but are supported in other > distros (e.g. Python 3.7 will be supported in Debian for ~1 additional year > after upstream EOL, but is not included in RHEL), we don't know yet (it never > happened until now). > > > Moreover, we don't have anything written down for where to reference > > and source security fixes across distributions for multi-Python > > (assuming that's a goal here). > > Not necessarily my goal, but a nice goal nevertheless. > > > If we're not doing any of that, then I'm not sure why other > > distributions matter for our multi-Python support beyond just making > > it easier to target those distributions. And if that's true, then we > > should have that codified too. > > Making it easier to use Fedora when you target those distributions was my > primary goal here. > Makes sense to me. -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ python-devel mailing list -- python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/python-devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
