On Sat, 2024-10-12 at 12:13 +0200, Ulrich Mueller wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, 12 Oct 2024, Michał Górny wrote: > > > > IMHO this would abuse the package name for information that absolutely > > > doesn't belong there. It belongs in PV or SLOT. > > > > > > To me it seems that you try to work around a problem (greedy upgrade > > > behaviour) that should really be solved in the package manager. > > > In my opinion, it's the other way around. We have slots, that are a fit > > solution for packages that are roughly compatible between every major > > release, and we keep abusing them for every single thing we can bend > > enough to make it fit. > > So are you saying that Python versions aren't "roughly compatible" > between releases? Like, they're a completely different language?
They're not compatible in the sense "if I install package for python3.12, it will work in python3.13", because every version uses a separate package tree. Upstream has effectively made every version separate. On top of that, the same "minor" version can have a PyPy variation and a "freethreading" variation now. -- Best regards, Michał Górny
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