I just filed LP: #1295153 for removing Python 3.3 from Trusty. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.3/+bug/1295153
Matthias and I have been in favor of this for a while, given that it looked like Python 3.4's release schedule would nicely align with ours. In fact, it all worked out, with Python 3.4 final having been released on March 16, 2014. Python 3.3.5 was released on March 8, 2014 and was retroactively declared the last bug fix release for Python 3.3. It now enters security-only mode for the duration of its lifecycle. Python 3.4 is a great release[1], and while we did find a few incompatibilities[2] leading to package build failures, all have been addressed now as far as we know. I think it's better overall for us to drop Python 3.3 from Trusty and support only Python 3.4 for the LTS. We will need to identify Python 3 extension module packages and rebuild them to reduce their size. Cheers, -Barry [1] http://docs.python.org/3.4/whatsnew/3.4.html [2] Notable examples: - The AST has changed and this lead to breakages of genshi. Upstream genshi committed some fixes to their vcs which I've backported to Debian and Ubuntu, while we wait for a new upstream release. - The semantics of __file__ have changed; it is now guaranteed to be an absolute path. While it's highly discouraged for packages to use __file__ (use the pkg_resource API instead), oneconf was relying on the relative paths of previous releases. I've fixed that bug and uploaded a new version.
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