On 2026-02-09 09:01, Mattia Verga via python-devel wrote:
Miro Hrončok wrote:
On 08. 02. 26 11:19, Mattia Verga via python-devel wrote:
I'd like to raise attention to some concerns about the python-dateutil package
status.
The package is not actively maintained by upstream [1] and I got an early
warning about it fails to build with Python 3.15 [2].
A user also tried to report a security vulnerability to upstream, but they got
no response [3].
Yet the package seems to be required by, ehm, a few others [4]. Shall we
encourage other dependent packages to find alternatives and move away from
python-dateutil? I didn't try to fix the Python 3.15 FTB (yet), but I don't
want to try to maintain the package in a working state by patching it
downstream.
Yes, we should try getting rid of it.
I suggest a proposal to deprecate it might be a good idea.
Useful resource: https://hugovk.dev/blog/2025/minus-six/
Thanks, I've drafted
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/DeprecatePython-dateutil
I'm not sure if that should be a self contained or system wide change... let me
know if you see something to tweak in the proposal.
python-dateutil got a new upstream release -- should we revisit this decision?
https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/changelog.html#version-4-0-0-2026-11-01
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