On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:43:09PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote: > Leo Famulari <l...@famulari.name> skribis: > > > On Fri, Apr 22, 2016 at 08:41:04AM +0200, Hartmut Goebel wrote: > >> Am 22.04.2016 um 01:12 schrieb Cyril Roelandt: > >> > I think the latest Python 3.x is Python 3.5.1 (see > >> > https://www.python.org/). Maybe we should forget about 3.4.x, WDYT? > >> > >> Python 3.4.4 is the latest version fon the 3.4 series. So we should > >> provide this too. (Esp. as long as 3.5 ist not packaged yet). > > > > As mentioned by others, updates to packages with many dependents are > > very computationally expensive, and so we try to do many of them in > > batches using the 'core-updates' branch of our Git repository. > > I’d suggest a ‘python-updates’ branch where we’d be able to pinpoint > breakage due specifically to these updates.
In that case, we should also try to update python-setuptools, and possibly some other "core" Python packages. I've noticed some upstream "minimum version of setuptools" requirements creepings towards our version.
