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From: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>, "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] */*: Mask Py2 only packages
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 18:18:52
Message-Id: 20168091.4csPzL39Zc@tuxbrain
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] */*: Mask Py2 only packages by "Michał Górny"
1 On Wednesday, 24 June 2020 20:03:57 CEST Michał Górny wrote:
2 > I think you're making the wrong assumption that Gentoo developers run
3 > bleeding edge systems. Instead, many of them prefer running stable
4 > and avoiding anything even remotely problematic.
5
6 That's not a contradiction for stable systems where I am using py38 as default
7 today already, and if it leads to more stable requests (without me ending up
8 having to do it) then even better.
9
10 The lack of curiosity for one's own packages' python compatibility is not just
11 a py27 isolated issue, it was a big problem with py36 -> py37 with so many
12 devs simply not filing that necessary stabilisation.

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Re: [gentoo-dev] */*: Mask Py2 only packages Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o>