Control: tags -1 moreinfo Hi Stefano, [Your report didn't make it to the list due to the large debdiff]. On Wed, 12 May 2021 11:24:53 -0400 Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> wrote: > Please unblock package pypy3 > > This is a long-shot request. Boo, I hate those (jesting, but partially serious, see [1] ). > [ Reason ] > > Updating bullseye to pypy3 7.3.4, targeting Python 3.7 instead of 3.6 > will fix a bug that I've been trying to get my head around for a couple > of months (on and off): #962654. > > I am unable to come up with a reasonable minimal patch for this bug. > > [ Impact ] > Debian's pip won't correctly build pep517 packages with the Python 3.6 > stdlib. The way we de-bundle the pep517 library breaks its use with pip. > Upstream implemented a fix for this (which is why it only affects pypy, > not cpython), but that fix requires the 3.7 stdlib. As I have zero experience with pip, how much of use cases are we talking about here, 0%, 100%, somewhere in the middle? Is this bug RC in the sense that it makes the package unusable, or is it "just" breaking a minor set of valid uses? Would it be (remotely) acceptable to "just" mention this in the Release Notes? > The workaround is for the user to upgrade pip to the latest upstream > version, after creating a pypy3 virtualenv. That will have a bundled > pep517 module that works correctly. Do you need the current pip for that? > [ Tests ] > We run the upstream test suite for pypy (but ignore the results, because > there are always known failures. I guess you could manually conclude something from (the *delta* of) the failures? What did you conclude? > Getting to the bottom of that is a job > for another day... > > [ Risks ] > This is a new upstream point release, and a switch from the 3.6 to 3.7 > branches of stdlib. That comes to a 12MiB debdiff... > > pypy3 is a leaf package. > The new version has been in experimental, and Ubuntu impish, with no > reported issues. > > pypy is not a leaf package. We could update them both - I generally keep > pypy and pypy3 in step with each other, but there's no specific need to. I propose to not even think about this. > unblock pypy3/7.3.4+dfsg-2 Paul [1] https://release.debian.org/bullseye/FAQ.html intro
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