Debian Development and Developers
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Freexian Collaborators: Debian Contributions: Python 3.13 as the default Python 3 version, Fixing qtpaths6 for cross compilation, sbuild support for Salsa CI, Rails 7 transition, DebConf preparations and more! (by Anupa Ann Joseph)
The Python 3.13 as default transition has now completed. The next step is to remove Python 3.12 from the archive, which should be very straightforward, it just requires rebuilding C extension packages in no particular order. Stefano fixed some miscellaneous bugs blocking the completion of the 3.13 as default transition.
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Bálint Réczey: Supercharge Your Installs with apt-eatmydata: Because Who Needs Crash Safety Anyway? 😈
Tired of waiting for
aptto finish installing packages? Wish there were a way to make your installations blazingly fast without caring about minor things like, oh, data integrity? Well, today is your lucky day!I’m thrilled to introduce
apt-eatmydata, now available for Debian and all supported Ubuntu releases! -
Kentaro Hayashi: Breaking compatibility, upgrade from createrepo-c 0.17.3 to 1.2.0
Recently createrepo-c on Debian unstable was updated from 0.17.3 to 1.2.0. It introduces breaking compatibility about metadata (repodata/*).
In the previous versions, generated metadata was compressed in gz format, newer version use zst compression instead. This kills some yum client to work because old yum client can't handle newer metadata format correctly.