Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Scott Kitterman Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Python 3.11, bytecode and new internals Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 18:30:01 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Mon Nov 21 17:25:27 2022 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.2 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] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/20491 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/E5BD6009-0D4B-4842-9FBA-C620A02671B5@kitterman.com Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 29 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2022 17:25:05 +0000 X-Original-Message-ID: X-Original-References: <6a68f118-391b-2e81-c325-3148a0970ef8@debian.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:14631 On November 21, 2022 5:02:57 PM UTC, "Louis-Philippe V=C3=A9ronneau" wrote: >On 2022-11-21 02 h 08, Julian Gilbey wrote: >> I'm just flagging this up here, with a question about how we should >> proceed=2E Certainly we are not ready to make Python 3=2E11 the defaul= t >> Python version!! > >This is a concern I share and I think I've been pretty vocal about it=2E > >I feel the state of python packages for Bookworm with 3=2E10 was pretty g= ood and it seemed reasonable to prioritize stability for our next stable re= lease :) > >It's very frustrating to work on packaging python libraries and apps for = a whole release cycle, just to see all that work put in the bin at the last= minute because upstream doesn't support 3=2E11=2E=2E=2E > >I've been told the current 3=2E11 transition was a test, and if it was cl= ear too many important things were broken and couldn't be fixed, we would r= oll back and release using 3=2E10=2E > Looks like you can add #1024521 to the list=2E Scott K