On 16.05.2020 12:00, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 09:13:38PM +0000, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
>> IIRC the soak was to end on Wednesday and any change requires at least
>> a week's extension.
>>
>> Here's the patch. I smoke tested it and it passed, but I'm seeing tests
>> randomly fail even in unpatched trunk so I can't an unqualified +1.
> I would prefer if we just nominated this for 1.14.1 as usual.
>
> This is something that is very, very easy to work around for packagers.
> And I don't think we are seeing a lot of people making their own builds
> from source these days, anyway. And even then, in the worst case they ask
> for help and it's easy to solve.
>
> So I see no reason to fix this for .0, not even with the hypothetical case
> in mind where we would drop python2 support to a stronger degree than
> we already have.
>
> If it is deemed very important, we could just document this in release
> notes under "Known issues" until 1.14.1 comes out.
Sure, that makes sense, too. After all, we have a bunch of
python-releated fixes already on trunk that are easily candidates for .1.
-- Brane
Received on 2020-05-16 13:46:19 CEST