[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: python packages

[Jon Turney]

On 10/02/2021 08:19, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin wrote:
> On 10.02.2021 03:29, Yaakov Selkowitz via Cygwin wrote:
>> On Tue, 2021-02-09 at 21:31 +0000, Jon Turney wrote:
>>> On 22/01/2021 21:37, Marco Atzeri via Cygwin-announce via Cygwin wrote:
>>>> Several python packages have been promoted from test to stable
>>>>
>>> [...]
>>>> python{36,37,38}-lxml-4.6.2-1
>>>
>>> Marco,
>>>
>>> I noticed something a bit odd, which I'm not sure is expected or not.
> 
> expected :-(
> Not time in the past to work on it.
> I was focusing on deploying python38-* as first priority
> 
>>>
>>> If I install 'python3-lxml', I get 'python36-lxml', which doesn't do me
>>> much good with 'python3' installed (which gets me python3.8 currently).
>>
>> When I changed the packaging scheme from pythonX-* to pythonXY-*, 3.6 
>> was the
>> "3" version at the time, and the python3-* created alongside 
>> python36-* were
>> only meant to be upgrade helpers from that point forward.
>>

Ok.  I'm not sure 'python3-foo' just as an upgrade helper is ideal.

Let me explain my use case:

I have a CI job which runs 'setup -q -P python3,python3-lxml'.  It's 
nice if that gets me something where "python3 -c 'import lxml'" works, 
and doesn't require changing every time the default python version is 
updated.

> there is a bit of cleaning to do on the python3-* tree and package pull,
> but first we need to patch cygport to stop creating additional
> python3-* packages if not requested.
> 
> I guess after the Perl 5.32 I could look on it
> as spring project.