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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why adding python3_8 to Gentoo sucks?
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 08:45:41
Message-Id: c2fa248dd59d24c624683d6e59f4a478da878f17.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why adding python3_8 to Gentoo sucks? by Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov
1 On Fri, 2019-11-15 at 11:41 +0300, Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov wrote:
2 > I think problem is more global:
3 > * many python3_6 packages dont have python3_7 keywords, because its
4 > maintainers dont bother about it. So if you want to switch to python3_7 you
5 > still need manualy add python3_7 use for many packages (that actualy work
6 > without problems
7 > * we need policy for python packages that force enablement of new python
8 > version on existing packages.
9
10 Policy makes little sense if there's no way to enforce it.
11
12 If you tested some package on py3.7 and depgraph, just add it there.
13
14 --
15 Best regards,
16 Michał Górny

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