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

[Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov]

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? 


-- 
Best regards,
Alexey 'Alexxy' Shvetsov