Subject: bug#68416: closed (Re: [bug#68416] [PATCH] python: add 3.20 - 3.16 to the version search list)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 02:13:02 +0000

Your bug report

#68416: [PATCH] python: add 3.20 - 3.16 to the version search list

which was filed against the automake-patches package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: [bug#68416] [PATCH] python: add 3.20 - 3.16 to the version search list
From: Karl Berry <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 19:12:13 -0700
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

    With Python 3.12 out now, and 3.13 out in ~9 months, the existing runway
    is running out.  Bump up to 3.20 for the next Automake release.

Applied, thanks.

Not proposing to try anything for our upcoming release, but I wonder if
there is some more general way to handle Python versions? We don't have
to laboriously list every possible version for anything else.

As things are, I'm tempted to include 4.20-4.1 too, because their next
major incompatibility will probably come sooner rather than later ...

wdyt? --thanks, karl.

Subject: [PATCH] python: add 3.20 - 3.16 to the version search list
From: Mike Frysinger <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 01:41:44 -0500
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

With Python 3.12 out now, and 3.13 out in ~9 months, the existing runway
is running out.  Bump up to 3.20 for the next Automake release.

* m4/python.m4: Add python3.20 - python3.16.
* NEWS: Mention new Python versions.
---
 NEWS         | 2 +-
 m4/python.m4 | 1 +
 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index c4e3d58ecb27..c53573a0abbb 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ New in 1.17:
     version. If a specific version of Python 2 is still needed, the
     $PYTHON variable should be set beforehand.
 
-  - AM_PATH_PYTHON will also search for Python versions 3.15 through 3.10.
+  - AM_PATH_PYTHON will also search for Python versions 3.20 through 3.10.
     It previously searched for 3.9 through 3.0. (bug#53530)
 
   - RANLIB may be overridden on a per-target basis.
diff --git a/m4/python.m4 b/m4/python.m4
index 8d4e4d21585b..2de57c52ae81 100644
--- a/m4/python.m4
+++ b/m4/python.m4
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ AC_DEFUN([AM_PATH_PYTHON],
   dnl supported. (2.0 was released on October 16, 2000).
   m4_define_default([_AM_PYTHON_INTERPRETER_LIST],
 [python python3 dnl
+ python3.20 python3.19 python3.18 python3.17 python3.16 dnl
  python3.15 python3.14 python3.13 python3.12 python3.11 python3.10 dnl
  python3.9 python3.8 python3.7 python3.6 python3.5 python3.4 python3.3 dnl
  python3.2 python3.1 python3.0 dnl
-- 
2.43.0