Re: Python 3.11 for bookworm?

[Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org>]

On 12/13/22 13:34, Julian Gilbey wrote:
> 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

Hi Julian,

It's probably ok if it's a *TEMPORARY* solution until upstream fixes 
everything in time for the release (which is months after the freeze). 
The question is: do you believe this may happen for let's say next March?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)