Message 142409 - Python tracker

Message142409

Author	lemburg
Recipients	Arfrever, Ramchandra Apte, amaury.forgeotdarc, barry, djc, dmalcolm, doko, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, foom, gagern, jwilk, lemburg, loewis, petri.lehtinen, pitrou, python-dev, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall, sandro.tosi, vstinner
Date	2011-08-18.23:17:23
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In-reply-to	<20110818185544.1950b20f@resist.wooz.org>

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Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > > Barry A. Warsaw <barry@python.org> added the comment: > > On Aug 18, 2011, at 05:54 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > >> As for the cases where "linux3" is reported: I don't care that >> they break. Python 2.6 and Python 2.7.2 is incompatible with >> Linux 3. Users should be advised to a) not upgrade to Linux 3, or >> b) simultaneously upgrade to a newer Python release, or >> c) work-around in their applications. >> >> I expect that most users chose a) for some time to come (until >> the Linux distributions ship the new kernels), and that the Linux >> distributions chose b) and c). > > In fact, for Debian and Ubuntu, we had several breakages due to sys.platform > == 'linux3' so for all Pythons we still support, we're going to force it back > to 'linux2'. This fixed all those broken packages without any of them needing > to be changed. Ah, those lazy Debian/Ubuntu folks again ;-)

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Barry A. Warsaw wrote:
> 
> Barry A. Warsaw <barry@python.org> added the comment:
> 
> On Aug 18, 2011, at 05:54 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
> 
>> As for the cases where "linux3" is reported: I don't care that
>> they break. Python 2.6 and Python 2.7.2 is incompatible with
>> Linux 3. Users should be advised to a) not upgrade to Linux 3, or
>> b) simultaneously upgrade to a newer Python release, or
>> c) work-around in their applications.
>>
>> I expect that most users chose a) for some time to come (until
>> the Linux distributions ship the new kernels), and that the Linux
>> distributions chose b) and c).
> 
> In fact, for Debian and Ubuntu, we had several breakages due to sys.platform
> == 'linux3' so for all Pythons we still support, we're going to force it back
> to 'linux2'.  This fixed all those broken packages without any of them needing
> to be changed.

Ah, those lazy Debian/Ubuntu folks again ;-)

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Date	User	Action	Args
2011-08-18 23:17:24	lemburg	set	recipients: + lemburg, loewis, barry, doko, amaury.forgeotdarc, gagern, foom, pitrou, vstinner, jwilk, djc, ezio.melotti, eric.araujo, Arfrever, r.david.murray, dmalcolm, sandro.tosi, rosslagerwall, python-dev, petri.lehtinen, Ramchandra Apte
2011-08-18 23:17:24	lemburg	link	issue12326 messages
2011-08-18 23:17:23	lemburg	create