Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/python3.5.html
On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 04:30:16PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Here's what I sent to debian-python about this transition:
>
> """
> It seems very likely that we'll want to release Stretch with python3.5 as the
> default and only python3 version. To do that, we'll need three transitions
> for python3 extensions (arch all python3 modules don't (with one exception)
> need to be touched for these transitions):
>
> 1. Add python3.5 as a supported python3 version (there is a python3-defaults
> in experimental that has this enabled for testing). This involves rebuilding
> all extensions that build-dep on python3-all-dev to support python3 3.4 and
> 3.5.
>
> 2. Make python3.5 the default python3 version. Rebuild extensions that
> build-dep on python3-dev.
>
> 3. Drop python3.4 as a supported python3 version. This involved rebuilding
> the same packages as the first one.
>
> For packages that build fine with python3.5, there should be nothing required
> from a maintainer point of view. Except pycxx this can all be done with
> binNMUs. Ubuntu has already done this transition and has patches for a number
> of packages that may be of assistance when working through issues.
>
> Python3 3.5.0-1 is in unstable. I'm going to ask the release team for
> permission to start the first transition once it gets to testing. The only
> impact (other than the aforementioned python3.5 specific build issues) will be
> transient build-dep uninstallabliity in the higher levels of the transition
> stack until the lower levels are rebuilt.
> """
>
> Here's my attempt at a ben file for the first transition:
>
> Ben file:
>
> title = "python3.5 supported";
> is_affected = .build-depends ~ "python3-all-dev";
> is_good = .depends ~ /python3 \(<< 3\.6/;
> is_bad = .depends ~ /python3 \(<< 3\.5/;
>
> I would appreciate it if you would go ahead and publish it and then with your
> permission, I'll coordinate binNMUs as I've done in the past for python
> transitions.
Does https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/python3.5.html look about
right? I adjusted the build-depend slightly.
There's quite some tangling with g++ stuff at the moment so please hold
tight for now. Is it feasible to do rebuild tests in experimental ahead of
time?
Thanks,
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Jonathan Wiltshire j...@debian.org
Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw
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