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Re: Switching Default Python3 To Python3.5

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From Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org>
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Subject Re: Switching Default Python3 To Python3.5
Date Fri, 01 Jan 2016 22:20:01 +0100
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On 31.12.2015 10:44, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> I went through the bad/unknown packages in the python3.5 transition tracker
> [1] and the remainder seems reasonable for doing the transition.
>
> Many of them only build support for the default python3 and so they will be
> bad until after they are rebuilt following the switch.  I filed bugs with
> patches for packages that seemed to be ~easy to make build for multiple
> versions.
>
> Some of the remainder should not be build-depending on python3-dev at all
> since they don't have any arch specific content.  I filed a stack of bugs on
> those too (as well as doing a team upload or two).
>
> That should leave in the neighborhood of 45 - 50 binNMUs, which isn't so many.
>
> Does anyone object if I go ahead and ask the release team for a transition
> slot?

No.  However there is a real issue with ipython. For Ubuntu xenial I just 
disabled the tests.  It would be nice if ipython would have an update strategy, 
whether this is the 2.x, 3.x or the 4.x branch.

Matthias

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Switching Default Python3 To Python3.5 Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2015-12-31 10:50 +0100
  Re: Switching Default Python3 To Python3.5 Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2016-01-01 22:20 +0100
  Re: Switching Default Python3 To Python3.5 Barry Warsaw <barry@debian.org> - 2016-01-04 17:10 +0100

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