On 5/16/21 1:52 PM, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: >> * One 3.x version at a time. Doesn't line up with cpython's support terms. > > folks, deep breath here: this is much more important than the one line > summary suggests. > > for some background: i have been using debian since 1996 and python for > 20+ years, dating back to python 2.0. > > due to the massive amount of accumulated software (several million > development source code files) i run a rolling debian/testing system, > *never* do an "apt-get dist-upgrade", *always* simply perform an on-demand > install of a given package and let apt sort itself out even to the > point often of > having some innocuous package end up pulling in a new libc6-dev and > binutils.
All the horrors that you are painting after this paragraph, are due to the fact that you aren't doing "apt-get dist-upgrade". I'm having a hard time understanding why you're both: - not doing "apt-get dist-upgrade" - complaining that it's breaking your system Could you care to explain? This makes absolutely no sense. By the way, since you're never doing "apt-get dist-upgrade", it means your system is full of security issues that aren't getting fixed. Hopefully, the computer system(s) you're talking about isn't connected to internet, right? Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)
