[ANNOUNCEMENT] Updated: python packages

[Ken Brown]

On 3/7/2021 10:37 AM, Jon Turney wrote:
> 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.

Currently python3 is a meta-package whose main purpose is to require the default 
python version (currently python38).  Marco, couldn't you just make python3-foo 
a meta-package that requires the corresponding python*-foo (currently python38-foo)?

Ken