Python 3.6 (only) for 4.10? (was: Re: Samba 4.9rc1 and blocker bugs)

[Rowland Penny]

On Wed, 04 Jul 2018 08:10:13 +1200
Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical <samba-technical at lists.samba.org>
wrote:

> On Tue, 2018-07-03 at 23:03 +0300, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> > On ke, 04 heinä 2018, Andrew Bartlett via samba-technical wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2018-07-03 at 16:35 +0200, Andreas Schneider via samba-
> > > technical wrote:
> > > > Hello,
> > > > 
> > > > Samba 4.9rc1 will be released while I'm on vacation. I didn't
> > > > find a release bug for Samba 4.9 but there is a blocker which I
> > > > opened:
> > > > 
> > > > Support building Samba with Python3
> > > > https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13504
> > > > 
> > > > Alexander is working on it to get it ready in time and he just
> > > > has a few things failing. Thanks for your hard work on that
> > > > Alexander. There is a mailinglist threads which he updates with
> > > > his progress.
> > > 
> > > I agree this is important, but we agreed as a team that we do not
> > > have 'blocker bugs'.   (That is also why there is no release bug).
> > 
> > I think you are mixing up Python3 and waf upgrade. 
> 
> Then I suggest a bug re-title.  I asked the same on the bug. 
> 
> > We should have waf
> > upgrade as a requirement for 4.9. Python3 is a next target.
> 
> OK, but we still don't do requirements, we only do regressions.  
> 
And you think using an old version of waf isn't a regression ?
The waf version used by Samba is that old,it has whiskers ;-)

Rowland