On April 19, 2020 1:55:20 PM UTC, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <l...@lkcl.net>
wrote:
>On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:36 PM Debian Bug Tracking System
><ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote:
>
>> #958166: python3-all: python3 can't import gmpy2
>> Python3.7 is no longer supported in Debian Unstable and Testing and
>will be removed shortly.
>
>if you were talking about python 3.6, there would be absolutely no
>problem, because python 3.6 is not the default version of python3
>that's installed in the current LTS stable release (debian 10).
>
>the fact that python 3.7 is the default LTS stable *and is being
>removed* leaves an extremely serious situation for anyone that
>attempts to dist-upgrade from debian 10 to debian 11.
>
>that was the lesson learned - the mistake made - by the ubuntu team,
>made all the more serious that the entire apt packaging system was
>critically dependent on a version of python that was *being removed*
>(!!)
>
>forget for one moment that i'm using debian/testing (which you should
>not in any way find it "acceptable" to callously dismiss people in the
>position that i am in such an unthinking fashion) - people doing
>*stable* dist-upgrades will end up with broken systems.
>
>and it's part of debian that stable-to-stable dist-upgrades must
>*always work*, ok? you should know this.
>
>and *that* is why i raised this as a critical bugreport, ok?
>
>*please think* before arbitrarily closing critical bugreports, ok?
>
>l.
That's completely wrong.
The existence proof is the aforementioned Debian 10. It only supports
python3.7. Not the version that was in Debian 9. If you need more, look at
Debian 9; it only supports python3.5, which is not the version in Debian 8 (the
actual LTS release).
Scott K
