Path: csiph.com!pasdenom.info!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Julian Gilbey Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Cython 3.0.0 Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 15:10:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Debian Python list X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Sun Aug 14 13:09:36 2022 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-5.97 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, SARE_LWSHORTT=1.24, T_SCC_BODY_TEXT_LINE=-0.01] autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/20179 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/Yvj0AeuUH0mJvwm0@d-and-j.net Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 20 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 14:09:21 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <20220814084906.nvtfehgyszgqlktr@satie.tumbleweed.org.za> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:14345 On Sun, Aug 14, 2022 at 08:49:06AM +0000, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Julian (2022.08.14_07:41:26_+0000) > > I don't know how many packages in Debian would be broken by the move > > to 3.0.0; that may be something worth exploring. It may well be that > > approach (2) makes most sense for the short term. > > I think that's the first question to answer. Once we know how bad > the incompatibilities are, we can decide on the best approach. > > So, first step is probably to package the new cython version (locally), > and try to rebuild everything against it. That sounds sensible, indeed, once the beta is released. As cython is used quite widely (240 packages or so in testing), I wonder whether it would be appropriate to upload it to experimental and ask Lucas to run the test builds across the archive? Best wishes, Julian