Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc.
- To: Helmut Grohne <helmut@subdivi.de>
- Cc: <debian-glibc@lists.debian.org>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>, GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>, "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>, Allan McRae <allan@archlinux.org>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh@gotplt.org>, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>, "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge@gentoo.org>, Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org>, Khem Raj <raj.khem@gmail.com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>, Adam Conrad <adconrad@ubuntu.com>, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom@linux.vnet.ibm.com>, Jeff Law <law@redhat.com>, Daniel Schepler <schepler@debian.org>
- Subject: Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc.
- From: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 17:43:15 +0000
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On Wed, 24 Oct 2018, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Oct 2018, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>
> > Daniel Schepler is working on a native bootstrap approach. As far as I
> > understand, he natively bootstraps Debian from non-Debian (same
> > processor architecure and kernel). I expect that his work will be
> > impacted by the proposed change. I've added him to Cc to let him speak
> > up.
>
> Daniel, any comments? I believe we have all the other distribution
> responses required for reaching consensus on this issue.
My attention has been drawn to a reply at
<https://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2018/10/msg00059.html> that didn't
go to libc-alpha.
Carlos, do you agree we have consensus on the Python 3.4 requirement (the
patch <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-10/msg00215.html> to add
that requirement still needs to be reviewed)?
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com
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