Re: [gentoo-dev] Why adding python3_8 to Gentoo sucks?

[Michał Górny]

On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 15:04 +0300, Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov wrote:
> В письме от пятница, 15 ноября 2019 г. 13:47:12 MSK пользователь Mart Raudsepp
> написал:
> > Ühel kenal päeval, R, 15.11.2019 kell 13:20, kirjutas Alexey 'Alexxy'
> >
> > Shvetsov:
> > > В письме от пятница, 15 ноября 2019 г. 11:45:32 MSK пользователь
> > > Michał Górny
> > >
> > > написал:
> > > > On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 11:41 +0300, Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov wrote:
> > > > > I think problem is more global:
> > > > > * many python3_6 packages dont have python3_7 keywords, because
> > > > > its
> > > > > maintainers dont bother about it. So if you want to switch to
> > > > > python3_7
> > > > > you
> > > > > still need manualy add python3_7 use for  many packages (that
> > > > > actualy work
> > > > > without problems
> > > > > * we need policy for python packages that force enablement of new
> > > > > python
> > > > > version on existing packages.
> > > >
> > > > Policy makes little sense if there's no way to enforce it.
> > > >
> > > > If you tested some package on py3.7 and depgraph, just add it
> > > > there.
> > >
> > > Some people dont like it =D And some arches (doesnt matter if i have
> > > such hw
> > > and tested on it)
> >
> > People mostly don't like it when you throw unrelated changes on top of
> > that, under the guise of just python target addition, especially when
> > they are also broken changes and involve a revbump without maintainers
> > involvement (just PYTHON_TARGETS addition doesn't). Or if it actually
> > doesn't work with the added python targets.
>
> As i remember some decades ago policy was: revbump needed if you change
> chnages stuff installed on filesystem. So in case of py addition it is. So what
> changed?
>
> Are there some new written rules that says in what case you need revbump and
> in what it needed?

https://devmanual.gentoo.org/general-concepts/ebuild-revisions/index.html

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Best regards,
Michał Górny