Re: Bug#949187: transition: python3.8
On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 06:12:08PM +0100, Rene Engelhard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Sun, Feb 02, 2020 at 06:07:29PM +0100, Matthias Klose wrote:
> > > e.g. fontforge is still red in
> > > https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/python3.8.html.
> > >
> > > That means that a rebuild of stuff using fontforge in the build will
> > > just FTBFS since it will be called with python3.8 and that has no module
> > > for 3.8 (yet).
> > >
> > > (Seen in a python-3.8-as-default testbuild for libreoffice some time
> > > ago.)
> >
> > you are wrong. fontforge just builds for the default python version.
>
> OK, maybe. But that also means that when python3.8 is default and
> fontforge isn't yet rebuilt for python3.8-as-default but some package
> from my list is rebuilt the same problem happens.
OK; inded it seems to just work. Maybe I even misremembered an it was
graphite2 and python3-fonttools. (Reused the chroot for multiple tests.)
But I *had* a module import failure when I tried some months ago.
Regards,
Rene
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