ATTN maintainers python 3.12 is now default (was Re: Updated: python 3 packages)

[Jon Turney]

On 22/09/2026 12:23, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty via Cygwin-apps wrote:
> On 02/09/2026 14:20, Jon Turney wrote:
>> On 29/08/2026 15:40, Jon Turney via Cygwin-apps wrote:
>>> On 27/08/2026 09:06, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce wrote:
>>>> New release for
[...]
>> python 3.12 is now the default so the following packages are in need 
>> of rebuilding:
[...]

>> The list of packages which meet these criteria is large, so I'll just 
>> point to it [1] rather than duplicating it all here.
>>
>> [1] https://cygwin.com/packages/reports/python_rebuilds.html
>>
>> (You can sort that list by maintainer by clicking on the column 
>> heading, to more easily locate your packages)
>>
>>
>> If you're no longer interested in maintaining the packages listed 
>> there, please let us know so we can stop bothering you about it.
>>
>>
>> Stuff on that list which hasn't been rebuilt since before python3.9- 
>> times are probably all candidates for removal.
> 
> Thanks for the reminder. Please don't remove python38-wx yet as I still 
> depend on it as there are outstanding issues with bundling python39-wx 

Noted.

> (more specifically, Python 3.9 itself) as a separate mini-Cygwin 
> installation, which I need to do for one of my programs.
> 
> Interestingly enough, I'm not showing up as the maintainer for python38- 
> wx on that list, any idea why?

This is due to [1].

I marked the python3-wx source package as obsolete as part of that 
change. Please use the python-wx source package name going forwards.

[1] https://cygwin.com/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2026-September/045077.html