Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc.

[Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>]

On 10/24/18 1:43 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> 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)?
 
I agree we have consensus and that the distribution maintainer are
sufficiently aware of the change that they will have time to adjust
before the release on February 1st.

-- 
Cheers,
Carlos.