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Bug#798999: transition: python3.5 supported

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Control: forwarded -1 https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/python3.5.html

On Mon, Sep 14, 2015 at 04:30:16PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> Here's what I sent to debian-python about this transition:
> 
> """
> It seems very likely that we'll want to release Stretch with python3.5 as the
> default and only python3 version.  To do that, we'll need three transitions
> for python3 extensions (arch all python3 modules don't (with one exception)
> need to be touched for these transitions):
> 
> 1.  Add python3.5 as a supported python3 version (there is a python3-defaults
> in experimental that has this enabled for testing).  This involves rebuilding
> all extensions that build-dep on python3-all-dev to support python3 3.4 and
> 3.5.
> 
> 2.  Make python3.5 the default python3 version.  Rebuild extensions that
> build-dep on python3-dev.
> 
> 3.  Drop python3.4 as a supported python3 version.  This involved rebuilding
> the same packages as the first one.
> 
> For packages that build fine with python3.5, there should be nothing required
> from a maintainer point of view.  Except pycxx this can all be done with
> binNMUs.  Ubuntu has already done this transition and has patches for a number
> of packages that may be of assistance when working through issues.
> 
> Python3 3.5.0-1 is in unstable.  I'm going to ask the release team for
> permission to start the first transition once it gets to testing.  The only
> impact (other than the aforementioned python3.5 specific build issues) will be
> transient build-dep uninstallabliity in the higher levels of the transition
> stack until the lower levels are rebuilt.
> """
> 
> Here's my attempt at a ben file for the first transition:
> 
> Ben file:
> 
> title = "python3.5 supported";
> is_affected = .build-depends ~ "python3-all-dev";
> is_good = .depends ~ /python3 \(<< 3\.6/;
> is_bad = .depends ~ /python3 \(<< 3\.5/;
> 
> I would appreciate it if you would go ahead and publish it and then with your
> permission, I'll coordinate binNMUs as I've done in the past for python
> transitions.

Does https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/python3.5.html look about
right? I adjusted the build-depend slightly.

There's quite some tangling with g++ stuff at the moment so please hold
tight for now. Is it feasible to do rebuild tests in experimental ahead of
time?

Thanks,

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Jonathan Wiltshire                                      jmw@debian.org
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Bug#798999: transition: python3.5 supported Jonathan Wiltshire <jmw@debian.org> - 2015-09-16 23:30 +0200
  Bug#798999: transition: python3.5 supported Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2015-09-17 00:00 +0200
    Re: Bug#798999: transition: python3.5 supported Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2015-09-25 04:20 +0200
      Bug#798999: transition: python3.5 supported Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2015-09-26 14:30 +0200
        Bug#798999: transition: python3.5 supported Yaroslav Halchenko <debian@onerussian.com> - 2015-09-27 16:20 +0200
          Bug#798999: transition: python3.5 supported Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2015-09-27 16:40 +0200
            Bug#798999: transition: python3.5 supported Tomasz Rybak <tomasz.rybak@post.pl> - 2015-09-29 22:10 +0200
    Status Update For Bug#798999: transition: python3.5 supported Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2015-10-12 16:30 +0200
      Re: Status Update For Bug#798999: transition: python3.5 supported Rene Engelhard <rene@debian.org> - 2015-10-12 21:30 +0200
        Re: Status Update For Bug#798999: transition: python3.5 supported Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2015-10-12 21:40 +0200

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