Marc-Andre Lemburg <m...@egenix.com> added the comment: Barry A. Warsaw wrote: > > 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.
Ah, those lazy Debian/Ubuntu folks again ;-) ---------- _______________________________________ 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
