On 2020/12/28 16:39, Daniel Dickman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 4:12 PM Kurt Mosiejczuk <k...@cranky.work> wrote:
> >
> > Here's an update for Python 3.8 to 3.8.7
> >
> > https://docs.python.org/release/3.8.7/whatsnew/changelog.html#python-3-8-7
> >
> > As usual, all tests but the asyncio test complete successfully. (asyncio
> > never completes).
> >
> > (cc maintainer)
> >
> 
> sadly this will break packaging for all python ports with shared
> libraries to the change they made for shared libraries :-(

3.9 will have the same in the next release.

There are approx 178 ports to fix, they'll just need plist regen and
bumping (there is already an appropriate variable in python.port.mk).
I'm working on it.

> (also the gdbm so migrated from the -gdbm package to -main, etc. you
> may want to fix that)

yep

> I had tried to do the update myself some time ago but ran into the .so
> issue which needs to be resolved. It seems like an unfortunate change
> to have made in a point release.

This doesn't affect Win/Linux/MacOS as they already had filenames
encoding the build type. So I suppose it wasn't considered too critical..


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