On 21Aug2020 04:00, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: >Fortunately, the *next* release of Ubuntu fixes this: > >https://packages.ubuntu.com/groovy/mercurial > >It depends on Python 3.8 instead. No idea why the 20.04 release insists >on 2.7.
I would guess they didn't have the resources to regression test the shift in time for 20.04. Moving to Python 3, _particularly_ with something like Mercurial which has a bunch of internal things which are in fact byte strings, risks subtle breakage. Cheers, Cameron Simpson <c...@cskk.id.au> -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
