Re: [gentoo-dev] Urgent reminder to port your packages to Python 3.8 and Python 3.9

[Sam James]

> On 3 Mar 2021, at 22:55, Sam James <sam@g.o> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> We still have ~31 packages still not declaring support for newer Python 3 targets than Python 3.7,
> we have ~1085 packages still not declaring support for newer Python 3 targets than Python 3.8 (i.e.
> Python 3.9).

Thanks to everyone who ported in response!

> Please review this list to see if your packages are stuck on Python 3.7:
> http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gpyutils/37-to-38.txt

We’re now on ~27.

>
> Please review this list to see if your packages are stuck on Python 3.8:
> http://qa-reports.gentoo.org/output/gpyutils/38-to-39.txt

We’re now on ~1012.

>
> This list contains maintainer names, so it’s easy to tell if you need to act.
>
> The default Python target in profiles was switched from Python 3.7 to Python 3.8
> at the beginning of December. A news item still needs to be created [0].
>
> Your package not supporting the latest targets makes it harder for other packages
> to do so. In particular, packages not supporting even the default target (now Python 3.8)
> means that users have a difficult time installing it.
>
> Previous warnings have been sent about this including in November [1]. mgorny sent
> this [2] RFC regarding an impeding switch of the default to Python 3.9 too.
>
> TL;DR:
> * Please port your packages to Python 3.8 (already default) and Python 3.9 ASAP.
> * Packages supporting Python 3 but not newer versions may be last-rited.
>
> [0] https://bugs.gentoo.org/771165
> [1] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/f1e452d0a54d5347d9f867478b2604c4
> [2] https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-dev/message/ba2fc4854ed6bb49813819ae6f5e9552