On Sun, Feb 05, 2023 at 02:41:08PM +0000, Stefano Rivera wrote: > Hi Julian (2023.02.05_10:38:23_+0000) > > > Why is the current intention not to ship the python3.10 package in > > bookworm? > > Because we aim to have a single Python release supported in every stable > release.
I am not suggesting that we revert to having Python 3.10 as a "supported version" (that would be a whole separate discussion); I am suggesting that we keep just the Python 3.10 interpreter and python3.10-venv in bookworm, so that users can use it to run a virtual environment if they need to do so. > > I was trying to run some experiments in a virtual environment a few > > days ago, and it turns out that several of the Python packages I > > needed do not yet run on Python 3.11. I was saved by being able to > > run in a Python 3.10 venv and download all the required packages from > > PyPI. If bookworm shipped without python3.10, I would not have been > > able to do my work. Removing python3.10 from bookworm will seriously > > affect many of our users in a similar situation to me. > > By the time bookworm releases, that probably won't be the case any more. I honestly don't know if that will be the case or not; some packages will be much slower to adapt than others. That's why I'm suggesting we leave the python3.10 and python3.10-venv packages in bookworm. > But anything that gets removed from Debian, because it isn't ready yet > obviously gets hurt in the process... I'm not sure what you mean here? Best wishes, Julian