Re: newt:use python3-major instead of python3-majorver

On 11/9/25 10:36 PM, Xi Ruoyao ([email protected] via blfs-dev Mailing List) wrote:
> On Mon, 2025-11-10 at 12:30 +0800, Zhang Wen wrote:
>> Xi Ruoyao <[email protected]> 于2025年11月10日周一 09:54写道：
>>>
>>> On Sun, 2025-11-09 at 22:06 +0800, Zhang Wen wrote:
>>>> On the newt page, we have --with-python=python-3.13 to prevent
>>>> building the python2 module.
>>>> This will fail when we have python-3.14 for LFS, so i propose
>>>> switching to python3-major.
>>>> This can work even when the python3 version is out of sync, and won't
>>>> harm anything AFAICS.
>>>
>>> The problem is we need to bump the Python version in BLFS or there will
>>> be too much things not to work.  Being "clever" at one specific case
>>> won't be really helpful.
>>>
>>> Again and again and again that's why we say "Development versions of
>>> BLFS may not build or run some packages properly if LFS or dependencies
>>> have been updated since the most recent stable versions of the books."
>>> for every BLFS package.
>>>
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>>
>> In truth i searched for something like 'keep python version in sync
>> before release' in the tickets and didn't find one.
> 
> https://wiki.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/ticket/22244
> 
>> I searched python3 in the BLFS repo and find that it is only for an
>> optional dependency of fetchmail for running fetchmailconf.
>> IMHO, ff we replace this optional dependency with some text
>> explanation, we can remove python3 from BLFS and things will be more
>> clear.
> 
> Even if you drop it from BLFS you still needs a version entity in BLFS.
> Obviously, you cannot read a version entity from LFS when you render
> BLFS.  And the version entity is used in a lot of places.
> 
> $ grep -r 'python3-major' -l | grep -v ^archive | wc -l
> 93
> 
> It would be similar to Perl, we still have a Perl version entity in
> BLFS.


Normally the Python version in BLFS would be updated to 3.14 by now, but a problem 
with editor availability has put that off.  It should be updated in the next week or 
so.  The problem with a new minor version is that all the modules have to be rebuilt 
and checked.

   -- Bruce

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