Path: csiph.com!news.samoylyk.net!gothmog.csi.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Simon McVittie Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Alternative libraries for PEP-594 Date: Fri, 02 Aug 2024 14:10:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Fri Aug 2 12:07:39 2024 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-107.51 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIMWL_WL_HIGH=-0.001, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SUBENDNUM=2, UNPARSEABLE_RELAY=0.001, USER_IN_DKIM_WELCOMELIST=-0.01, USER_IN_DKIM_WHITELIST=-100] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Debian-User: smcv X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/22194 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/ZqzL-eFEDHKSSBc2@remnant.pseudorandom.co.uk Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 22 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 13:07:21 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <667baffb-2372-4d2e-a033-440d1d687074@debian.org> <0776385d-816a-4f91-8b32-06f4f64585da@sail.ng> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:16156 On Fri, 02 Aug 2024 at 19:40:59 +0800, Blair Noctis wrote: > Even today, 2 Aug 2024, is 2 months from the effective date. Please > file bugreports/issues to ask the packages you care about to migrate. I agree with this part of what you said. But, not this part: > Also, even python3.11 is still there. Sure someone needing something expunged > from 3.13 would be fine staying with 3.12? In unstable, yes, at least temporarily; but not forever (and 3.11 has already disappeared from testing). Also, many Debian developers think of our stable releases as being our primary deliverable, with testing/unstable only being a tool that we use to make the next stable release. In stable, we generally only have one version of Python (for example Debian 12 has Python 3.11 and no other version), because the Python maintainers and other core teams do not have the resources to security-support more than one branch for 3 years. smcv