Bug 415635

Summary:	[Tracker] packages failing with python:3.2 as default python interpreter
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michael Weber (RETIRED) <xmw>
Component:	[OLD] Core system	Assignee:	Python Gentoo Team <python>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	nikoli, tdalman, yngwin
Priority:	Normal	Keywords:	Tracker
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:	346107, 381759, 381809, 385401, 390153, 415461, 415507, 415631, 419813, 420213
Bug Blocks:

Description Michael Weber (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-05-12 21:50:46 UTC

Background:

The currently generated stage3 tarballs (at least amd64) have python-3.2.2 as default python version, which works mostly but leads to some related bugs.

These bugs shall be tracked here.

Comment 1 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-05-13 09:16:22 UTC

How time-sensitive is this? We could also contemplate setting the default version back to 2.7.

Comment 2 Ben de Groot (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2012-06-18 13:04:48 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> How time-sensitive is this? We could also contemplate setting the default
> version back to 2.7.

We should definitely revert to python:2.7 as default. Python3 is not ready for prime time yet. 

I just closed bug #420213 as CANTFIX... Maybe we should keep it open? Is there another possible solution here?