Path: csiph.com!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!news.mb-net.net!open-news-network.org!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Barry Warsaw Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Python3.6 plans for Buster Date: Sat, 17 Jun 2017 08:50:02 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Sat Jun 17 06:42:28 2017 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -5 Organization: The Organization of Unorganized Woozalists X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.14.1 (GTK+ 2.24.31; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/14952 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20170616234207.0fb3d0e7@presto Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 25 Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2017 23:42:07 -0700 X-Original-Message-ID: <20170616234207.0fb3d0e7@presto> X-Original-References: <793F3BCC-4ABE-463E-8F49-B5147F2BA1AC@kitterman.com> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:9574 On Jun 17, 2017, at 04:20 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >Last time I compared my understanding of the Buster schedule with the >python3.7 schedule, I recall concluding that we'd likely be on python3.6 f= or >the Buster release (not sure that's still true). If so, we only have to do >this once this cycle and=E2=80=8BI think the sooner the better. Thanks for bringing this up Scott, and thanks for the additional information about Ubuntu's transition Steve. For sure, Debian should make 3.6 default = as soon as possible in Buster. But we may indeed get to 3.7 by the time Buster is released. According to = PEP 537 [*], 3.7.0 final is schedule for almost exactly 1 year from now, on 2018-06-15. So if Buster is approximately 2 years out from now, then we'll need to do more transition, and have plenty of time for it. (Aside: it does mean Ubuntu's next LTS will carry 3.6.) Cheers, -Barry [*] https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0537/