Thanks for the update Piotr! I wish I could have made it, but it conflicted with family vacations. On Aug 08, 2011, at 11:50 PM, Piotr Ożarowski wrote: >At DebConf11 in Banja Luka, we had a short discussion¹ about Python 3 >support in Debian. Apparently everything is very good, nobody >complained², no feature request for dh_python3... so I talked a little >bit about PEP 3147, PEP 3149, new and shiny PEP 402 and about status of >py3multibuild GSoC project (which already supports more build systems >than dh/cdbs, Mesutcan is working on integrating it with CDBS/dh >sequencer now). Fantastic! I really wish I could have made more progress with Python 3 porting during the current Ubuntu cycle, but the dh_python2 transition was just an enormous amount of work. We're down to the wire though - not everything converted, but we will be eliminating python-support and python-central from our CD/DVD images. Lots of patches submitted to Debian too, and I've seen many positive responses from the package maintainers. Anyway, with that task done, I do want to return to Python 3 work. I'm really glad to hear about py3multibuild progress. How can I begin to play with on my Wheezy systems now? (maybe start by reading up on it again ;). >We discussed /usr/bin/python2 symlink issue shortly and we all agreed >that we don't want Debian to use it (should helpers change shebangs back >to /usr/bin/python? Should lintian warn about it?) although we might >want to ship it with Wheezy to follow other distributions³. I definitely don't think we should do anything until and unless PEP 394 gets accepted. >/usr/bin/python will point to Python 2 in Debian for a while (Wheezy and >Wheezy+1 for sure). /usr/bin/python3 might point to python3.3 instead of >3.2, though. Python 3.3 should be released short after Wheezy freeze, >but we'll have RC releases in unstable before the freeze and it could be >possible to replace 3.2 with 3.3 in supported Python 3 versions (but >that's something we'll consider later, after checking how much work is >needed for the transition). Should we consider supporting both 3.2 and 3.3 in Wheezy? It's much easier for us to do that now. :) >The good news is that Andreas will port britney⁴ to Python 3 really soon >now (but I might misunderstood something, as usual ;-) > >Anyway, it should be a lot easier to add python3-* packages in 1-2 >months (py3build will be integrated in python3-defaults package and >dh_python3 will get some improvements). \o/ -Barry
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