Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Matthias Klose Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Switching Default Python3 To Python3.5 Date: Fri, 01 Jan 2016 22:20:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Fri Jan 1 21:15:36 2016 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.68 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, MURPHY_DRUGS_REL8=0.02, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5 Old-X-Envelope-From: doko@debian.org Old-X-Envelope-To: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/13362 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/5686EC5C.4090901@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 23 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Fri, 1 Jan 2016 22:15:08 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <5686EC5C.4090901@debian.org> X-Original-References: <4974348.IqeRIFmh9V@kitterma-e6430> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:8044 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