[openstack-dev] Debian already using Python 3.5: please gate on that
Doug Hellmann
doug at doughellmann.com
Thu Jun 18 17:25:56 UTC 2015
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?
Doug
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