The transition to add support for Python 3.6 is beginning

[Michael Hudson-Doyle]

On 29 June 2017 at 10:43, Michael Hudson-Doyle <michael.hudson at canonical.com
> wrote:

>
>
> On 21 June 2017 at 15:13, Michael Hudson-Doyle <
> michael.hudson at canonical.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> An update on the transition to Python 3.6: Python 3.6 is now a supported
>> version in artful release, and almost all packages that build C extensions
>> have been rebuilt (pandas is still a problem).
>>
>> We have created a PPA where python3.6 is the default and rebuilt all
>> python packages: https://launchpad.net/~canonical-foundations/+arch
>> ive/ubuntu/python3.6-as-default/+packages and the next step is to fix
>> all the failures this reveals.  The initial failing source packages are
>> listed in http://paste.ubuntu.com/24903638/ although some of those have
>> been fixed now.
>>
>
> The 100 or so failures are now summarised in https://docs.google.com/
> spreadsheets/d/1Y8dy5cyu8DrmTvT4CNSaVSP2ZZT79sYhT_rAQ19bFUQ/edit?usp=
> sharing, please do check if any packages you care about are on the list
> and fix any that you can see how to. Uploading fixes direct to the archive
> is preferred, but if you lack the rights to do that, attaching a bug to a
> debdiff and subscribe me (mwhudson on lp) and I'll sponsor it v. quickly!
>

We've fixed many of these now, and I've uploaded the change to make python
3.6 the default version in artful. Next step is getting this to migrate,
see
http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/artful/update_excuses.html#python3-defaults
for that and please help fix anything that is preventing the migration
(like whatever it is that breaks botch with python 3.6 as default...)

Cheers,
mwh
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