[Bug 1295153] Re: [FFe] Remove Python 3.3 from Trusty

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Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

** Changed in: python3-defaults (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Confirmed

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Title:
  [FFe] Remove Python 3.3 from Trusty

Status in “python3-defaults” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “python3.3” package in Ubuntu:
  In Progress

Bug description:
  Several times this cycle we have discussed whether to drop Python 3.3
  from Trusty, since upstream Python 3.4 final has been released, and
  has been available in Trusty for a while, and has been the default
  Python 3 version for a while.  I've worked to fix known ftbfs and
  other issues with packages that worked in Python 3.3 but failed in 3.4
  - a notable example is genshi, which upstream has committed fixes to
  their vcs and I've backported to the Debian and Ubuntu packages while
  we wait for a new upstream release.

  There are no known 3.4 specific build failures in main: http://qa.ubuntuwire.com/ftbfs/
  There are no python3.4 tagged bugs currently open: http://tinyurl.com/m8zqvjg

  It makes sense to me that we should not carry Python 3.3 into an LTS.
  Just before the 3.4 final was released upstream, Python 3.3.5 was
  released, and it has been retroactively declared the last bug fix
  release of the 3.3 series.  Python 3.3 now goes into security-only fix
  mode:

  https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2014-March/133213.html

  Removing Python 3.3 will save archive space and reduce space in
  packages with extension modules (we need to identify them and rebuild
  them, and I'll coordinate with Doko on that).

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