Barry A. Warsaw <ba...@python.org> added the comment: On Aug 18, 2011, at 05:54 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:
>As for the cases where "linux3" is reported: I don't care that >they break. Python 2.6 and Python 2.7.2 is incompatible with >Linux 3. Users should be advised to a) not upgrade to Linux 3, or >b) simultaneously upgrade to a newer Python release, or >c) work-around in their applications. > >I expect that most users chose a) for some time to come (until >the Linux distributions ship the new kernels), and that the Linux >distributions chose b) and c). In fact, for Debian and Ubuntu, we had several breakages due to sys.platform == 'linux3' so for all Pythons we still support, we're going to force it back to 'linux2'. This fixed all those broken packages without any of them needing to be changed. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue12326> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
