Michael Ströder
On 11/8/19 7:29 AM, Matěj Cepl wrote:
while trying to upgrade Python in Factory to 3.8 we got this beauty https://build.opensuse.org/project/staging_projects/openSUSE:Factory/A Could I ask anybody who has any free work cycles to take a look and help with fixing those failing packages, please?
I'm a bit concerned about how many back-port patches are needed to get Python 3.8 out.
Especially I'm concerned about back-port patches not being coordinated with upstream resulting in a huge number of update work piling up.
AFAIK Fedora provides several minor versions of Python 3 in parallel (packages python3x).
They do provide multiple versions of the Python interpreter, but no additional packages. This is only done to e.g. allow people to run tests with tox for multiple python versions.
Wouldn't it be worth to rather work on this than putting everbody at risk that python3 backed by Python 3.8 breaks many things?
Ciao, Michael.
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Dan Čermák