Path: csiph.com!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Matthias Klose Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python,linux.debian.bugs.dist Subject: Re: Adding Python 3.8 as a supported Python3 version Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 23:40:02 +0100 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: debian-python , 942106@bugs.debian.org X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Tue Nov 12 22:39:35 2019 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.58 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, MURPHY_DRUGS_REL8=0.02, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -3.5 Old-X-Envelope-From: doko@debian.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.2.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/17587 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/7c420d9e-3c9e-a743-e9d4-8329efe9962c@debian.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 46 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: Debian Science List X-Original-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 23:39:17 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <7c420d9e-3c9e-a743-e9d4-8329efe9962c@debian.org> X-Original-References: Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:12009 linux.debian.bugs.dist:983268 On 07.11.19 15:08, Matthias Klose wrote: > This weekend, I am planning to upload python3-defaults, adding python3.8 as a > supported Python3 version.  This may introduce some churn in unstable until the > basic binNMUs are available as well. > > Details for the addition can be found at [1], known issues and patches are filed > [2].  There was no test rebuild in Debian itself, but the addition was made in > the current Ubuntu development series.  Things look good, and from my point of > view don't block any unrelated transition work.  python3-defaults will get a RC > issue to stay in unstable until the packages build-depending on python3-all-dev > are built, and after doing a test rebuild with the two supported Python3 > versions.  Earlier test rebuilds don't make sense. > > There are a few packages, where the upstream versions used in Ubuntu diverge > from the ones currently in unstable (not naming those already updated in > unstable by the DPMT): > >  - hypothesis #942693, not sure if this is really needed, >    the testsuite stack might be fixed by the new pluggy >    version as well. > >  - python-xarray #944044. 1.4 is already broken with Python 3.7. For >    Ubuntu I fell back to 1.2.1. 1.2.3 might work as well, still seeing >    one or two test failures. > >  - Using numpy from experimental, and only building the Python2 numpy >    packages from the python-numpy source. > >  - Using python-scipy from experimental, building the Python3 packages, >    and renaming the python-scipy package to python2-scipy, only building >    the Python2 packages. > >  - matplotlib and pandas don't have Python2 packages in Ubuntu >    anymore, so I can't tell much what is needed here. Pandas needs >    a new upstream for 3.8. > > Packages building on top of numpy/scipy/pandas, like the PyAstro stack, continue > to work with these updates, despite some new test failures. So this upload didn't happen, but thanks to Rebecca we now have an almost Python2 free pandas in unstable. And apologies to the science team for the 1-day delayed NMUs for patsy and scikit-learn. Now planning the python3-defaults upload for Thursday or Friday. Matthias