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From: Andreas Sturmlechner <asturm@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Please port your packages to Python 3.8
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2020 20:08:00 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4384119.vXUDI8C0e8@tuxbrain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6bce27ad-fb72-011a-e10d-ab4c44c845ae@gentoo.org>

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On Wednesday, 2 September 2020 19:42:33 CEST Michael Orlitzky wrote:
> New USE flags generally change dependencies (as is the case here), so a
> new revision ensures that people are forced to install the ebuild that
> supports python-3.8. Otherwise, you will eventually find a lot of people
> stuck unable to upgrade because they have an ebuild installed that only
> supports <=python-3.7, and were never prompted to install the copy that
> supports python-3.8.

Python target changes must be done with -U, also documented by the 
accompanying repository news item, not really a problem.

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  reply	other threads:[~2020-09-02 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-09-01 11:02 [gentoo-dev] Please port your packages to Python 3.8 Michał Górny
2020-09-01 12:06 ` Rich Freeman
2020-09-01 12:59   ` Michał Górny
2020-09-01 13:09   ` Alexey Sokolov
2020-09-02  7:40   ` Michał Górny
2020-09-02 17:23 ` Sam James
2020-09-02 17:42   ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-09-02 18:08     ` Andreas Sturmlechner [this message]
2020-09-02 19:00       ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-09-03 16:38         ` Alexis Ballier
2020-09-03 18:17           ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-09-04  8:39             ` [gentoo-dev] " Martin Vaeth
2020-09-04 12:40               ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-09-04 18:27                 ` Martin Vaeth
2020-09-05  9:38                   ` Martin Vaeth
2020-09-04 12:54             ` [gentoo-dev] " Alexis Ballier
2020-09-04 13:06               ` Michael Orlitzky
2020-09-04 13:13                 ` Alexis Ballier
2020-09-04 13:22                 ` Rich Freeman
2020-09-04 13:40                   ` Michael Orlitzky

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