On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 5:29 PM, Ben Finney <ben+pyt...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: > Duncan Booth <duncan.bo...@invalid.invalid> writes: > >> Here's what I see in the Ubuntu packages. Python 3 seems only to be in the >> universe repositories so far. >> >> Dapper: Python 2.4.2 >> Hardy: Python 2.5.2 >> Intrepid: Python 2.5.2, 3.0~b3 (universe) >> Jaunty: Python 2.6.2, 3.0.1 (universe) >> Karmic: Python 2.6.4rc1, 3.1 (universe) >> Lucid: Python 2.6.4, 3.1 (universe) >> >> WTF is rc anything doing in the main repository? > > It's to be expected if the release team process specifies announcement > messages of the form “RELEASED: Python X.Y.Zrc2”. I have long argued, > without much traction, that the process should reserve the term > “RELEASED” for use only in reference to releases, not other things. >
Don't worry, it's not just Python. Ubuntu Hardy (IIRC) had a Firefox 3 beta in the repositories until a little while after the final release. I don't know what's taking them so long to upgrade to the final 2.6.4 though. > -- > \ “First they came for the verbs, and I said nothing, for verbing | > `\ weirds language. Then, they arrival for the nouns and I speech | > _o__) nothing, for I no verbs.” —Peter Ellis | > Ben Finney > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list