changing the python default from 2.6 to 2.7

[Matthias Klose]

On 08.12.2010 01:30, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Tuesday, December 07, 2010 07:05:03 pm Matthias Klose wrote:
>> Tomorrow, Wednesday December 8, we'll change the default Python version in
>> Natty from 2.6 to 2.7.
>
> Where did we do the assessment of the rebuilds done over the weekend that was
> decided on at the Release Team meeting?

the rebuilds were done, and build failures fixed on the same weekend.  you can 
see the remaining issues at

   https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bugs?field.tag=python27

None of these are critical.  I don't see any reason to delay this switch, 
although we still have to fix < 2% build issues with these packages.

We certainly will see issues with 2.7 as the default, but we won't see these 
without having 2.7 as the default.  Again, a rebuild test with 2.7 as the 
default was done by Barry, so I think these issues are manageable.  Alpha time 
is the right time to do that.

   Matthias