Bug 737350

Summary:	app-emulation/libguestfs: need py3.7, 3.8 port
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Michał Górny <mgorny>
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	No maintainer - Look at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Proxy_Maintainers if you want to take care of it <maintainer-needed>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	jfostiguy, rich, sam, treecleaner, valentin.ittvs
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:	can remove USE=python if necessary
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	695996

Description Michał Górny archtester

2020-08-16 08:55:45 UTC

The packages are stuck on py3.6 which means they will be pain once we switch to 3.7.  Please test them on 3.7 *and* 3.8 (so we don't to revisit this in a few months), and update PYTHON_COMPAT appropriately.  If it doesn't work, please either fix it, remove Python or issue last rites.  Please consider this urgent.

Comment 1 Michał Górny archtester

2020-09-01 10:53:53 UTC

ping.

Comment 2 LABBE Corentin 2020-12-27 08:25:38 UTC

I confirm libguestfs works with python3.7. I use it as dependency of LAVA.

Comment 3 Sam James archtester

2020-12-27 19:20:12 UTC

Ping, maksbotan can you look at this? We're close to dropping py3.6 support.

Comment 4 Terra 2021-01-05 22:08:34 UTC

Ping, maksbotan - py3.6 support is now dropped (commit: 3b120860ecfa) and it has caused some havoc with world updates.  In particular I had to unmask app-misc/hivex-1.3.18 to get world updates working again.

I really don't want to see libguestfs get last rites as this package is important/useful when dealing with a lot of virtual machines.

Comment 5 Conrad Kostecki gentoo-dev

2021-01-30 16:29:22 UTC

Support for python has been dropped for now, so closing here:
https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=34e0d817f35aad31d992a35f436603e3e8eed3bb