Re: [PATCH 0/2] Update Python to current versions

[Ludovic Courtès]

Leo Famulari <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 08:41:04AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote:
>> Am 22.04.2016 um 01:12 schrieb Cyril Roelandt:
>> > I think the latest Python 3.x is Python 3.5.1 (see
>> > https://www.python.org/). Maybe we should forget about 3.4.x, WDYT?
>> 
>> Python 3.4.4 is the latest version fon the 3.4 series. So we should
>> provide this too. (Esp. as long as 3.5 ist not packaged yet).
>
> As mentioned by others, updates to packages with many dependents are
> very computationally expensive, and so we try to do many of them in
> batches using the 'core-updates' branch of our Git repository.

I’d suggest a ‘python-updates’ branch where we’d be able to pinpoint
breakage due specifically to these updates.

Unfortunately, this will have to be scheduled after we’re done with
‘gnome-updates’, and possibly after ‘core-updates’.

Thanks,
Ludo’.