Re: python-future missing python 3.8 and 3.9 support

[Jon Turney <jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk>]

On 05/05/2022 00:04, Libor Ukropec wrote:
> Dne 04.05.2022 v 0:15 Jon Turney napsal(a):
>> On 03/05/2022 21:25, Libor Ukropec wrote:
>>> Hello Jon, maintainers,
>>>
>>> who is now the maintainer of the python-future - Jon Turney?
>>
>> Yes, it seems to be me, I don't know quite why though...
> Hello Jon,
> in this case if you want to, I can take over the responsibility for this 
> package, just let me know.

Thanks. I've given you maintainership of python-future, although it 
seems pretty mature, so hopefully won't require updating.

>>> The python-future supports only python 2.7, 3.6 and 3.7 and these are 
>>> basically obsolete. I'd like to add support for 3.8 and 3.9 - it 
>>> should allow me to support `duplicity` package with the latest python 
>>> (3.9).
>>>
>>> PYTHON_WHEEL_VERSIONS variable should help. Can I kindly ask someone 
>  >>...
>>
>> Thanks.  I rebuilt python-future with this change.
> That was quick, thank you.
> 
> Unfortunately because of the dependency hell (python paramiko => nacl, 
> and may be others) I cannot use the Python 3.9, still your work enables 
> me to use at least the Python 3.8 (where all dependencies are resolved), 
> which is great!

Yeah, the situation is not ideal, and ideally something would be done to 
improve this situation, perhaps so we can automatically rebuild all the 
python packages for 3.9 or 3.10 when we get to that, but ... SHTDI...