[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: python packages

Yaakov Selkowitz yselkowitz@cygwin.com
Wed Feb 10 02:29:37 GMT 2021


On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 21:31 +0000, Jon Turney wrote:
> On 22/01/2021 21:37, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin wrote:
> > Several python packages have been promoted from test to stable
> > 
> [...]
> > python{36,37,38}-lxml-4.6.2-1
> 
> Marco,
> 
> I noticed something a bit odd, which I'm not sure is expected or not.
> 
> If I install 'python3-lxml', I get 'python36-lxml', which doesn't do me 
> much good with 'python3' installed (which gets me python3.8 currently).

When I changed the packaging scheme from pythonX-* to pythonXY-*, 3.6 was the
"3" version at the time, and the python3-* created alongside python36-* were
only meant to be upgrade helpers from that point forward.

-- 
Yaakov



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