[openstack-dev] Debian already using Python 3.5: please gate on that

Ihar Hrachyshka ihrachys at redhat.com
Fri Jun 19 11:15:39 UTC 2015


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On 06/18/2015 09:48 PM, Doug Hellmann wrote:
> Excerpts from Brian Curtin's message of 2015-06-18 13:17:52 -0500:
>> On Thursday, June 18, 2015, Doug Hellmann <doug at doughellmann.com>
>> wrote:
>> 
>>> Excerpts from Thomas Goirand's message of 2015-06-18 15:44:17
>>> +0200:
>>>> Hi!
>>>> 
>>>> tl;dr: skip this message, the subject line is enough! :)
>>>> 
>>>> As per the subject line, we already have Python 3.5 in Debian
>>>> (AFAICT, from Debian Experimental, in version beta 2). As a
>>>> consequence, we're already running (unit) tests using Python
>>>> 3.5. Some have failures: I could see issues in
>>>> ceilometerclient, keystoneclient, glanceclient and more (yes,
>>>> I am planning to report these issues, and we already started 
>>>> doing so). As Python 3.4 is still the default interpreter
>>>> for /usr/bin/python3, that's currently fine, but it soon wont
>>>> be.
>>>> 
>>>> All this to say: if you are currently gating on Python 3,
>>>> please start slowly adding support for 3.5, as we're planning
>>>> to switch to that for Debian 9 (aka Stretch). I believe
>>>> Ubuntu will follow (as the Python core packages are imported
>>>> from Debian).
>>> 
>>> 3.5 is still in beta. What's the schedule for an official
>>> release from the python-dev team?
>> 
>> 
>> 3.4 Final is planed for September 13 
>> https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0478/
> 
> Based on that, I am confident in sticking with our plan of gating
> using 3.4 for now and keeping an eye on the 3.5 packages being
> built by Debian and Canonical.
> 

+1. Putting burden on projects to adopt to beta releases of python is
unreasonable.

Ihar
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