Dear Python Team Looking at the current state of the 'adding Python 3.11 as a supported version' transition [1], the tracker [2] shows only 12 red packages (excluding unknowns and packages not in testing) remaining, copied below for reference.
We believe all FTBFS and autopkgtest regression bugs have already been filed and tagged. The current state of bugs tagged 'python3.11' [3] is 116 resolved and 49 still open. Many thanks to everyone who has contributed to fixing these, and especially to the organizers of the recent Python sprint [4]. As this transition is non-blocking (i.e. uploaded packages are able to migrate ahead of python3-defaults), we could wait for the remaining bugs to be fixed, or for auto-removal to take its course. However, with the bookworm transition freeze only one month away [5], we'd like to hear from the Python Team within the next week whether they wish to proceed with Python 3.11 being the only supported version for bookworm (in which case we will allow python3-defaults to migrate right now) or, revert the changes in python3-defaults and have Python 3.10 as the only supported version for bookworm. Should it be the former, we'd like an undertaking from the Python Team that they will help resolve the remaining bugs against key packages [6], as these cannot easily be avoided by manual or auto-removals. On behalf of the Release Team Graham [1] https://bugs.debian.org/1021984 [2] https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/python3.11-add.html [3] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?tag=python3.11&users=debian-python@lists.debian.org [4] https://veronneau.org/debian-python-team-2022-sprint-report.html [5] https://release.debian.org/bookworm/freeze_policy.html [6] https://udd.debian.org/bugs/?release=bookworm&merged=ign&fnewerval=7&flastmodval=7&fusertag=only&fusertagtag=python3.11&fusertaguser=debian-python%40lists.debian.org&rc=1&ckeypackage=1&sortby=id&sorto=asc&format=html#results Dependency level 2 omniorb-dfsg python-pgmagick pythonmagick xdmf Dependency level 7 boost1.74 guiqwt python-line-profiler python-xmlsec Dependency level 8 cypari2 renpy Dependency level 10 pybdsf Dependency level 13 sunpy
