GNU bug report logs - #53530
python 3.10 support

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Package: automake;

Reported by: Thomas Klausner <tk <at> giga.or.at>

Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2022 18:56:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Mike Frysinger <vapier <at> gentoo.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #11 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: "Zack Weinberg" <zack <at> owlfolio.org>
To: "Brad House" <bug-automake <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Re: bug#53530: [PATCH] python: add 3.10 - 3.15 to the version search
 list
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2022 10:09:15 -0500

On Wed, Jan 26, 2022, at 6:37 AM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> Fixes automake bug https://bugs.gnu.org/53530.
>
> Based on the cadence of Automake releases, add the current Python
> release (3.10), the current Python development (3.11), and then 4
> more versions on top of that.  It doesn't hurt to check for a few
> extra versions here since this is the fallback logic when the main
> `python` and `python3` programs aren't found.

It's unfortunate that we keep having to update this list.  I wonder if there's a clean way to detect all the available /^python\d\.\d+/ commands and then sort them.

zw
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