Bug 375257 – python and >=linux-3 don't play well

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2011-07-15 07:40:05 UTC]

This is a tracker bug for Python on Linux 3 issues.

Upstream so far:

http://bugs.python.org/issue12326
http://bugs.python.org/issue12571

Reproducible: Always

[Comment 1 Alexandre Rostovtsev (RETIRED) 2011-07-25 14:16:50 UTC]

Note: for 99% of python packages out there, linux-3 issues can be fixed by

s/sys.platform == 'linux2'/sys.platform.startswith('linux')/

[Comment 2 Martin von Gagern 2011-08-21 07:11:20 UTC]

Will you apply http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c816479f6aaf/ (perhaps minus the NEWS changes, as they won't apply as easily) to all python versions supported by Gentoo? That minimizes breakage of existing code and still allows people to update their kernel to linux 3.

[Comment 3 Nikolaj Šujskij 2011-09-13 06:40:27 UTC]

(In reply to comment #2)
> Will you apply http://hg.python.org/cpython/rev/c816479f6aaf/ (perhaps minus
> the NEWS changes, as they won't apply as easily) to all python versions
> supported by Gentoo? That minimizes breakage of existing code and still allows
> people to update their kernel to linux 3.

I think it is the best solution there is: take an upstream fix (though it's arguably not that good). More and more bugs would appear (for example, Mercurial build is broken with sys.platform=='linux3'), and the sooner we roll back to 'linux2' as upstream had done, the less bugs would bother users.

[Comment 4 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2011-09-16 13:34:59 UTC]

I've started by adding 2.7.2-r3 and 3.1.4-r3 with the patch from upstream. Will see about older versions on the gentoo-python mailing list.

[Comment 5 Nikoli 2011-10-19 17:03:48 UTC]

gentoo-sources-3.0.6 are now marked amd64 stable, do you plan to stabilize python-2.7.2-r3 and 3.1.4-r3?

[Comment 6 Dirkjan Ochtman (RETIRED) 2012-10-05 08:30:29 UTC]

Since there have been no complaints about python:2.5 and python:2.6, closing.