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From: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] IPython 7.17 drops Python 3.6 support AKA upgrade reminder
Date: Sat, 01 Aug 2020 10:19:22
Message-Id: e0b70c0a19168609d125439a397075ba12692031.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] IPython 7.17 drops Python 3.6 support AKA upgrade reminder by Rich Freeman
1 On Sat, 2020-08-01 at 06:15 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote:
2 > On Sat, Aug 1, 2020 at 3:29 AM Michał Górny <mgorny@g.o> wrote:
3 > > I would like to take this as an opportunity to remind you to port your
4 > > packages to Python 3.7 and 3.8. According to our timeline [1], packages
5 > > that are not ported by the end of the year are going to be last rited.
6 > > We would also like to switch to 3.8 in December.
7 > >
8 > > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Python/Implementations#Implementation_support_timeline
9 >
10 > So, has anybody given thought to publishing a list of packages that
11 > still need to be updated, including their maintainers?
12 >
13 > Or perhaps filing bugs?
14 >
15 > Or is the plan to go ahead and watching nothing happen for the next
16 > few months, then start masking hundreds of packages, and then watch
17 > devs scramble to fix problems they didn't realize existed?
18 >
19
20 Or perhaps you'd like to help out instead of wasting your own
21 and everybody else's time on talking?
22
23 --
24 Best regards,
25 Michał Górny

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