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Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc.
- From: Carlos O'Donell <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>, Helmut Grohne <helmut at subdivi dot de>
- Cc: debian-glibc at lists dot debian dot org, GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv at altlinux dot org>, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>, Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh at gotplt dot org>, Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>, "Andreas K. Huettel" <dilfridge at gentoo dot org>, Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox at gentoo dot org>, Khem Raj <raj dot khem at gmail dot com>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>, Adam Conrad <adconrad at ubuntu dot com>, Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho <tuliom at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Daniel Schepler <schepler at debian dot org>
- Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 15:48:43 -0400
- Subject: Re: Propose requiring Python 3.4 or later for building glibc.
- References: <258837a9-50bf-d2b3-950a-c28e5b411e8f@redhat.com> <20181022095125.GA15764@aurel32.net> <20181022141525.GA16023@alf.mars> <alpine.DEB.2.21.1810241650040.4633@digraph.polyomino.org.uk> <alpine.DEB.2.21.1810241741410.4633@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
On 10/24/18 1:43 PM, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2018, Joseph Myers wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 22 Oct 2018, Helmut Grohne wrote:
>>
>>> Daniel Schepler is working on a native bootstrap approach. As far as I
>>> understand, he natively bootstraps Debian from non-Debian (same
>>> processor architecure and kernel). I expect that his work will be
>>> impacted by the proposed change. I've added him to Cc to let him speak
>>> up.
>>
>> Daniel, any comments? I believe we have all the other distribution
>> responses required for reaching consensus on this issue.
>
> My attention has been drawn to a reply at
> <https://lists.debian.org/debian-glibc/2018/10/msg00059.html> that didn't
> go to libc-alpha.
>
> Carlos, do you agree we have consensus on the Python 3.4 requirement (the
> patch <https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2018-10/msg00215.html> to add
> that requirement still needs to be reviewed)?
I agree we have consensus and that the distribution maintainer are
sufficiently aware of the change that they will have time to adjust
before the release on February 1st.
--
Cheers,
Carlos.