When should Python 3.3 become the default?

[Scott Kitterman]

On Friday, October 19, 2012 01:43:24 PM Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2012, at 12:30 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> >I think the current patch is not sufficient.
> >
> >https://launchpadlibrarian.net/120110060/buildlog_ubuntu-quantal-i386.pytho
> >n- qt4_4.9.3-4%2Btest1_FAILEDTOBUILD.txt.gz
> >
> >I didn't investigate why.  That's with python3-defaults from quantal + your
> >patch and adding 3.3 as a supported version.
> 
> I get a different failure:
> 
> dh_testdir
> mkdir -p build-3.3
> cd build-3.3 && python3.3 ../configure.py --confirm-license --verbose -q
> /usr/bin/qmake-qt4 -c -j 10 LIBDIR_QT=/usr/lib STRIP="" MOC=moc-qt4
> LIBS_OPENGL="" LIBS_X11="" LIBS_THREAD="" CFLAGS="" CFLAGS_RELEASE=" -g -O2
> -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat
> -Werror=format-security  -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" LFLAGS="" CXXFLAGS_RELEASE="
> -g -O2 -fstack-protector --param=ssp-buffer-size=4 -Wformat
> -Werror=format-security  -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2" LFLAGS_RELEASE="
> -Wl,-Bsymbolic-functions -Wl,-z,relro -Wl,-O1" \ -m
> /usr/lib/python3.3/config \
> 			-d /usr/lib/python3.3/dist-packages \
> 			--dbus /usr/include/dbus-1.0 \
> 			--no-designer-plugin
> Usage: python configure.py [opts] [macro=value] [macro+=value]
> 
> configure.py: error: '/usr/lib/python3.3/config' is not a directory
> make: *** [build-3.3/configure-stamp] Error 2
> dpkg-buildpackage: error: debian/rules build gave error exit status 2
> 
> but I'll keep investigating.

dbus-python dies with 3.3 too:

checking whether gcc and cc understand -c and -o together... yes
checking whether /usr/bin/python3.3-dbg version >= 2.6... configure: error: too 
old
dh_auto_configure: ../configure --build=i686-linux-gnu --prefix=/usr --
includedir=${prefix}/include --mandir=${prefix}/share/man --
infodir=${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var --
libdir=${prefix}/lib/i386-linux-gnu --libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/i386-linux-gnu --
disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking 
PYTHON=/usr/bin/python3.3-dbg --disable-api-docs --disable-html-docs --
libdir=/usr/lib returned exit code 127
make[1]: *** [override_dh_auto_configure-arch] Error 2


Scott K