Re: Bug#1107304: python3.13 left out of toolchain packages list

[Jeremy Bícha <jeremy.bicha@canonical.com>]

On Sat, Jun 7, 2025 at 3:07 AM Sebastian Ramacher <sramacher@debian.org> wrote:
> On 2025-06-05 17:51:10 -0400, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
> > Release Team,
> >
> > I noticed today while reading https://bugs.debian.org/1107304 that
> > python3.13 was not included in the toolchain packages list [1]. My
> > reading of the list is that it was intended to be there.
>
> It is there. The list contains
>
> python3 (default)
>
> That covers python3.13.

I agree on the intent. I had assumed that there would also be a
britney block to enforce it but I guess that was a wrong assumption?

python3.13 3.13.2-2 and 3.13.2-3 migrated after Toolchain Freeze. And
3.13.3-2 migrated after Soft Freeze. Now it's finally blocked because
it is a key package.

I don't see any unblock or pre-approval requests for python3.13,
despite there being 6 or 7 uploads to Unstable after Toolchain Freeze.
The table at https://release.debian.org/testing/freeze_policy.html
says that toolchain packages need pre-approval. So I'm a bit annoyed
that there was yet another python3.13 upload this week that happened
to trigger an RC bug in Unstable for at least one package
(pdfarranger).

[1] https://release.debian.org/testing/essential-and-build-essential.txt

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha