Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Graham Inggs Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python,linux.debian.devel.release Subject: Re: Python 3.11 for bookworm? Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2022 21:50:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python , Debian Release X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Mon Dec 26 20:40:15 2022 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.698 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate:hard: -4.6 X-Riseup-User-ID: B264FE3C545A07DA2C899187C3E8254304E8E73EBF583CD3E06F7AD5F4A799B5 X-Gm-Message-State: AFqh2ko0fqo8bUdN2kY2vFil+ZzGoz1WP26jDbqEbW8PN7+oB8AksxaK ZFjiNJs6I3Xw9HZ0zyiUj35FiswfdEzV9wbm3fc= X-Google-SMTP-Source: AMrXdXtwSbfpYz2xhGVdWCXKeCz/Zn4587FKntIPPYJSU/AFvDbo1oAnwMV9VDBiIkZMPX2pUw9FWto79cbcW9L/2qo= X-Received: by 2002:a05:6808:1410:b0:35c:1079:f361 with SMTP id w16-20020a056808141000b0035c1079f361mr1331359oiv.158.1672087192546; Mon, 26 Dec 2022 12:39:52 -0800 (PST) MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Gmail-Original-Message-ID: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/20650 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/CAM8zJQtahBiuRxJ5EC335snJN4HG8+wkK+DuetzAEA0CgXJr_Q@mail.gmail.com Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 45 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2022 20:39:41 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <1fc30086-582e-36e1-f530-39323e85cd8d@ubuntu.com> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:14782 linux.debian.devel.release:112591 Hi Matthias On Wed, 21 Dec 2022 at 18:24, Matthias Klose wrote: > while we have not an 100% agreement to go ahead, I think we should aim for 3.11. Action speaks louder than words, and there's been a whole lot of work done to push this forward. > The following steps would be: > > - accept the current python3-defaults into > testing (adding 3.11 as supported) This has been done. > - ask for a transition slot to upload (see #1026825) > python3-defaults with 3.11 as the default We're currently waiting on the PHP 8.2 (#1014460) and qtbase-opensource-src (#1025863) transitions. Although, there's been no progress on PHP 8.2, so this may be reconsidered. qtbase-opensource-src is currently blocked on a pyqt5 FTBFS on mipsel (#1026980), but there is a possible workaround. We hope to be able to start with the remaining steps soon. > - start the no-change NMUs > - file bug reports. > - fix issues > - let 3.11 as default migrate to testing. > If things don't go as planned, we could default back to 3.10. Mostly that would > be no-change uploads, however in the case of a 3.11 specific fix that doesn't > work for 3.10, these fixes would need reverting. I have no idea who many of > these we will introduce with this transition. OK, good to know we can still back out if we have to. > Also we might want to ask for some freeze exceptions for third party libraries, > that we can't fix before the feature freeze, unfortunately at this point we > cannot say which and how many packages would be affected. The release team is prepared to consider these on a case-by-case basis. Regards Graham