Forking baazar to add Python 3.x support

[Andrew Starr-Bochicchio]

On Mon, Jan 13, 2014 at 11:50 AM, Richard Wilbur
<richard.wilbur at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 12:34 AM, Zygmunt Krynicki
> <zygmunt.krynicki at canonical.com> wrote:
>> I've forked Bazaar, as bzr3, in order to move the codebase to Python 3.x and
>> remove things no longer required to make that effort easier.
>
> How long have the different Linux distributions been packaging Python
> 3.x?

Ubuntu has shipped Python 3 in main since Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid
Lynx). That was upstream version 3.1.2. I haven't ported anything
major to Python 3, but my understanding is that it doesn't make much
sense to attempt to support older versions; 3.3 is an easier target.
That's been in Ubuntu since Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail).

Debian currently sports:

oldstable - 3.1.3
stable - 3.2.3
testing - 3.3.2
unstable - 3.3.2
exp - 3.3.3

I believe that Fedora 13 was the first version to ship Python 3.
Fedora 20 shipped last month with 3.3.2.

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