Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, The python team approached me to assist in cleaning up the python stack. up to now, we built all python modules for: * python38 * python39 * python310 * pythoin311 with python310 being the default python interpreter for quite some time already. After nitroducing python 3.11 not too long ago, we are now reducing back to 3 python flavors, meaning python 3.8 is 'falling off the shelve' openSUSE:Factory has just been reconfigured to no longer consider python38 when using the python single_spec macros (as most python-* packages do); those packages will be cleaned up as part of snapshot 0404. Should you further rely on those packages on your system, make sure to add relevant locks to keep the ones you have - and start migrating to python 3.10. Cheers, Dominique