Re: Python 3.11 for bookworm?

[Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net>]

Hi Graham,

On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 11:51:11PM +0000, Graham Inggs wrote:
> Dear Python Team
> 
> Looking at the current state of the 'adding Python 3.11 as a supported
> version' transition [1], the tracker [2] shows only 12 red packages
> (excluding unknowns and packages not in testing) remaining, copied
> below for reference.
> [...]

If Python 3.11 is the default, then it is highly likely that Spyder
will not be included: debugpy, which is a dependency of Spyder and
python3-ipykernel (and lots of things that depend on that) seems to
require major work upstream to make it fully compatible with Python
3.11.  This is work in progress, but I don't know whether it will be
ready in time for the freeze.  At the moment, I have worked around
this problem by just skipping the failing tests, but that is far from
an ideal solution.

Best wishes,

   Julian