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Python3.8 Transition Lessons Learned

Started byScott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>
First post2020-04-14 16:30 +0200
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  Python3.8 Transition Lessons Learned Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2020-04-14 16:30 +0200

#12480 — Python3.8 Transition Lessons Learned

FromScott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com>
Date2020-04-14 16:30 +0200
SubjectPython3.8 Transition Lessons Learned
Message-ID<zVuJA-5bi-7@gated-at.bofh.it>

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In the course of dropping python3.7 from supported versions binNMUs were 
scheduled before the python3-defaults update dropping python3.7 migrated to 
testing.

These binNMUs migrated to Testing immediately.  This resulted in a case where 
in Testing, python3.7 and python3.8 were supported versions, but packages had 
lost their python3.7 support.  This caused autopkgtest failures which appeared 
as regressions.

In the future, I think it would be better to upload python3-defaults dropping 
the old version, let it migrate to Testing, and then schedule binNMUs.  That 
would result in less churn.

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are replying.

Scott K
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