Re: [PATCH 0/2] Update Python to current versions

[Leo Famulari]

On Sun, Apr 24, 2016 at 11:43:09PM +0200, Ludovic Courtès wrote:
> Leo Famulari <address@hidden> 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.