On Sun, Apr 19, 2020 at 1:36 PM Debian Bug Tracking System <ow...@bugs.debian.org> wrote:
> #958166: python3-all: python3 can't import gmpy2 > Python3.7 is no longer supported in Debian Unstable and Testing and will be > removed shortly. if you were talking about python 3.6, there would be absolutely no problem, because python 3.6 is not the default version of python3 that's installed in the current LTS stable release (debian 10). the fact that python 3.7 is the default LTS stable *and is being removed* leaves an extremely serious situation for anyone that attempts to dist-upgrade from debian 10 to debian 11. that was the lesson learned - the mistake made - by the ubuntu team, made all the more serious that the entire apt packaging system was critically dependent on a version of python that was *being removed* (!!) forget for one moment that i'm using debian/testing (which you should not in any way find it "acceptable" to callously dismiss people in the position that i am in such an unthinking fashion) - people doing *stable* dist-upgrades will end up with broken systems. and it's part of debian that stable-to-stable dist-upgrades must *always work*, ok? you should know this. and *that* is why i raised this as a critical bugreport, ok? *please think* before arbitrarily closing critical bugreports, ok? l.
