On Sat, 2024-10-12 at 12:13 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
> > > > > > On Sat, 12 Oct 2024, Michał Górny wrote:
>
> > > IMHO this would abuse the package name for information that absolutely
> > > doesn't belong there. It belongs in PV or SLOT.
> > >
> > > To me it seems that you try to work around a problem (greedy upgrade
> > > behaviour) that should really be solved in the package manager.
>
> > In my opinion, it's the other way around.  We have slots, that are a fit
> > solution for packages that are roughly compatible between every major
> > release, and we keep abusing them for every single thing we can bend
> > enough to make it fit.
>
> So are you saying that Python versions aren't "roughly compatible"
> between releases? Like, they're a completely different language?

They're not compatible in the sense "if I install package for
python3.12, it will work in python3.13", because every version uses
a separate package tree.  Upstream has effectively made every version
separate.  On top of that, the same "minor" version can have a PyPy
variation and a "freethreading" variation now.

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Best regards,
Michał Górny