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Author barry
Recipients Arfrever, Ramchandra Apte, amaury.forgeotdarc, barry, djc, dmalcolm, doko, eric.araujo, ezio.melotti, foom, gagern, jwilk, lemburg, loewis, petri.lehtinen, pitrou, python-dev, r.david.murray, rosslagerwall, sandro.tosi, vstinner
Date 2011-08-18.22:55:48
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On Aug 18, 2011, at 05:54 PM, Martin v. Löwis wrote:

>As for the cases where "linux3" is reported: I don't care that
>they break. Python 2.6 and Python 2.7.2 is incompatible with
>Linux 3. Users should be advised to a) not upgrade to Linux 3, or
>b) simultaneously upgrade to a newer Python release, or
>c) work-around in their applications.
>
>I expect that most users chose a) for some time to come (until
>the Linux distributions ship the new kernels), and that the Linux
>distributions chose b) and c).

In fact, for Debian and Ubuntu, we had several breakages due to sys.platform
== 'linux3' so for all Pythons we still support, we're going to force it back
to 'linux2'.  This fixed all those broken packages without any of them needing
to be changed.
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