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Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python Language Summit

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On 5/16/21 1:52 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
>> * One 3.x version at a time. Doesn't line up with cpython's support terms.
> 
> folks, deep breath here: this is much more important than the one line
> summary suggests.
> 
> for some background: i have been using debian since 1996 and python for
> 20+ years, dating back to python 2.0.
> 
> due to the massive amount of accumulated software (several million
> development source code files) i run a rolling debian/testing system,
> *never* do an "apt-get dist-upgrade", *always* simply perform an on-demand
> install of a given package and let apt sort itself out even to the
> point often of
> having some innocuous package end up pulling in a new libc6-dev and
> binutils.

All the horrors that you are painting after this paragraph, are due to
the fact that you aren't doing "apt-get dist-upgrade". I'm having a hard
time understanding why you're both:
- not doing "apt-get dist-upgrade"
- complaining that it's breaking your system

Could you care to explain? This makes absolutely no sense.

By the way, since you're never doing "apt-get dist-upgrade", it means
your system is full of security issues that aren't getting fixed.
Hopefully, the computer system(s) you're talking about isn't connected
to internet, right?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python  Language Summit Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> - 2021-05-16 14:20 +0200
  Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python  Language Summit Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net> - 2021-05-16 14:30 +0200
  Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python  Language Summit Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> - 2021-05-16 23:00 +0200
    Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python  Language Summit Brian May <bam@debian.org> - 2021-05-17 00:30 +0200
  Re: Challenges packaging Python for a Linux distro - at Python  Language Summit Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2021-05-17 12:10 +0200

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