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, -- Jonathan Wiltshire jmw@debian.org Debian Developer http://people.debian.org/~jmw 4096R: 0xD3524C51 / 0A55 B7C5 1223 3942 86EC 74C3 5394 479D D352 4C51
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