Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Scott Kitterman Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Status Update For Bug#798999: transition: python3.5 supported Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 21:40:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Mon Oct 12 19:35:18 2015 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.1 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5 Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=kitterman.com; s=201409; t=1444678501; bh=6XqhuyTlIbgq07nwn0PPSALQi3/rMWbSEWu2oeFe1vw=; h=From:To:Subject:Date:In-Reply-To:References:From; b=qTSAYLj5j+OfGX2mRnbbZXIW9wIsqC8j9m0sMpdtnbYEWJ6tKMWHCTC5af5kgxryz jm2c2KUuUmpsXmtBXtOiwoG53wJpO2Gg9EyVME6BmcrApr2zPVE8a7Hj6dWaGEN2ke UvX1U6zULurNJky3MNo65OzOu82eCvkLunP9oXW0= User-Agent: KMail/4.13.3 (Linux/3.13.0-63-generic; KDE/4.13.3; x86_64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/12949 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/7896906.OA2tLdEyU7@kitterma-e6430 Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 42 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2015 15:35:01 -0400 X-Original-Message-ID: <7896906.OA2tLdEyU7@kitterma-e6430> X-Original-References: <68693772.ZjC33q7KA0@kitterma-e6430> <1622061.ZBMvqZWXt2@kitterma-e6430> <20151012192543.GE16691@rene-engelhard.de> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:7639 On Monday, October 12, 2015 09:25:43 PM Rene Engelhard wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 10:24:02AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > Additionally, looking ahead to the next transition that makes python3.5 > > the > > default python3, it would be good to look at the packages that build-dep > > on > > python3-dev and see if it's reasonable to have them build-dep on > > python3-all- dev and build for all supported python3 versions. > > > > Packages that only build for the default version will break until rebuilt > > as soon as the default changes, whereas extensions that are built for all > > supported python3 versions continue to work just fine. The fewer default > > only packages we have, the less breakage goes with changing the default > > [2]. I have not investigated these at all. > > [...] > > And then > > > [2] > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?filename=python3-dev.list;b > > ug=798999;msg=84;att=1 > which says: > > Reverse-Build-Depends > ===================== > [...] > * libreoffice > [...] > > Please, not this discussion again. :) snip of detailed discussion about why not LO. Thanks for the detailed analysis. OK, let's not investigate that one any further. Scott K P.S. No need to CC me as I am subscribed.