Re: Python 3.10 in bookworm
Our social contract #4 says "Our priorities are our users and free
software". What benefits would having the python3.10 base packages in
bookworm bring for our users (as I point out, for some users, this is
a necessity) and what disadvantages would it bring (none that I can
think of)? Why would we tell a whole bunch of our users: "Don't
upgrade to Debian 12 until all of the critical packages you use from
PyPI are upgraded to support Python 3.11, or fix those packages
yourself"?
And may I politely remind you, Thomas, that you are very
concerned about breaking things for people:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=973617#40
This is likely a far greater impact than the discussion there on many
more people.
Best wishes,
Julian
On Sun, Feb 05, 2023 at 12:25:18PM +0100, Thomas Goirand wrote:
> How about fixing the 3.11 issues if you hit them ? How about using Buster and 3.9 if 3.11 doesn't work (yet) for you ?
>
> Thomas Goirand (zigo)
> On Feb 5, 2023 11:38, Julian Gilbey <julian@d-and-j.net> wrote:
> >
> > Why is the current intention not to ship the python3.10 package in
> > bookworm?
> >
> > I was trying to run some experiments in a virtual environment a few
> > days ago, and it turns out that several of the Python packages I
> > needed do not yet run on Python 3.11. I was saved by being able to
> > run in a Python 3.10 venv and download all the required packages from
> > PyPI. If bookworm shipped without python3.10, I would not have been
> > able to do my work. Removing python3.10 from bookworm will seriously
> > affect many of our users in a similar situation to me.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> >
> > Julian
> >
> > P.S. We should also fix #1036268 if we do keep python3.10 in bookworm;
> > I'm happy to do an NMU if needed.
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