Singularity and python3 - was Re: EPEL: Python 3.4 will be EOL in March 2019

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On Tue, 21 Aug 2018, Miro Hrončok wrote:

On 13.8.2018 11:49, Larry Hastings wrote on python-dev@xxxxxxxxxx:
We of the core dev community commit to supporting Python releases for
five years.  Releases get eighteen months of active bug fixes, followed
by three and a half years of security fixes.  Python 3.4 turns 5 next
March--at which point we'll stop supporting it, and I'll retire as 3.4
release manager.

My plan is to make one final release on or around its fifth birthday
containing the last round of security fixes.  That's about seven
months from now.

See also PEP 429 -- Python 3.4 Release Schedule [0].

We have python34 and python36 in EPEL7. python34 being the "main" one and python36 the "other" one. The original plan [1] was that once the ecosystem is adapted well enough, we can switch what "main" and "other" is and eventually drop python34, creating room for maybe another python3 release to be the "other" next (python38 maybe?). Originally this was supposed to happen for each release [2], but this was later abandoned due to lack of manpower.

How does this affect EPEL6 ?
We have just released singularity-runtime-2.6.0-1.1.el6.x86_64.rpm
which adds a dependency on /usr/bin/python3

Will EPEL6 users have to pull in an epel python3.6 as well as
epel python3.4 (and possibly in addition to SCL python33) ?

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Andrew C. Aitchison					Cambridge, UK
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