SRU: backport Python 3.8.10 to 20.04 LTS and 20.10

[Matthias Klose]

Backport python 3.8.10 to focal (and groovy).

Regression potential: ...

Validation: Test results show no regressions, and the archive test rebuild doesn't show any regressions.

Acceptance criteria:
 - check test suite and autopkg test results
 - do a test rebuild for the main component

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Matthias, or anyone else affected,

Accepted python3.8 into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.8/3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.10 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-groovy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Matthias, or anyone else affected,

Accepted python3.8 into groovy-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.8/3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.10.1 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-groovy to verification-done-groovy. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-groovy. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

for the groovy upload, all the triggered autopkg tests pass

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

Hello Matthias, or anyone else affected,

Accepted python3.8 into focal-proposed. The package will build now and be available at https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/python3.8/3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04 in a few hours, and then in the -proposed repository.

Please help us by testing this new package. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation on how to enable and use -proposed. Your feedback will aid us getting this update out to other Ubuntu users.

If this package fixes the bug for you, please add a comment to this bug, mentioning the version of the package you tested, what testing has been performed on the package and change the tag from verification-needed-focal to verification-done-focal. If it does not fix the bug for you, please add a comment stating that, and change the tag to verification-failed-focal. In either case, without details of your testing we will not be able to proceed.

Further information regarding the verification process can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/QATeam/PerformingSRUVerification . Thank you in advance for helping!

N.B. The updated package will be released to -updates after the bug(s) fixed by this package have been verified and the package has been in -proposed for a minimum of 7 days.

[Ubuntu SRU Bot (ubuntu-sru-bot)]

All autopkgtests for the newly accepted python3.8 (3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04) for focal have finished running.
The following regressions have been reported in tests triggered by the package:

python3.8/3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04 (amd64)
libreoffice/1:6.4.7-0ubuntu0.20.04.1 (amd64)

Please visit the excuses page listed below and investigate the failures, proceeding afterwards as per the StableReleaseUpdates policy regarding autopkgtest regressions [1].

https://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-archive/proposed-migration/focal/update_excuses.html#python3.8

[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates#Autopkgtest_Regressions

Thank you!

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

the failing autopkg tests on focal succeeded with a retry.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

The description mentions doing a test rebuild for main. Where are the results of that test rebuild?

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

it's the same test rebuild, as done for LP: #1930125

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python3.8 - 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.10.1

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python3.8 (3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.10.1) groovy-proposed; urgency=medium

  * SRU: LP: #1928057. Backport Python 3.8.10 to 20.10.
  * Python 3.8.10 release.
  * Refresh patches.
  * Call python with -S when checking the minimal set of modules.
  * Try to detect whether python3-venv is missing (Stefano Rivera).
    Addresses: #977887.
  * Build a python3.8-full package.
  * Don't configure with --with-system-libmpdec for the backport.

python3.8 (3.8.9-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium

  * Python 3.8.9 release.

python3.8 (3.8.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Python 3.8.7 release.

python3.8 (3.8.7~rc1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Python 3.8.7 release candidate 1.
  * Bump standards and debhelper versions.
  * Don't expect the test_ttk_textonly test to pass.
  * Add python3-tk test dependency for the failing-tests* autopkg tests.
  * Update symbols files.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Jun 2021 12:49:15 +0200

[Łukasz Zemczak (sil2100)]

The verification of the Stable Release Update for python3.8 has completed successfully and the package is now being released to -updates. Subsequently, the Ubuntu Stable Release Updates Team is being unsubscribed and will not receive messages about this bug report. In the event that you encounter a regression using the package from -updates please report a new bug using ubuntu-bug and tag the bug report regression-update so we can easily find any regressions.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package python3.8 - 3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04

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python3.8 (3.8.10-0ubuntu1~20.04) focal-proposed; urgency=medium

  * SRU: LP: #1928057. Backport Python 3.8.10 to 20.04 LTS.
  * Python 3.8.10 release.
  * Refresh patches.
  * Call python with -S when checking the minimal set of modules.
  * Try to detect whether python3-venv is missing (Stefano Rivera).
    Addresses: #977887.
  * Build a python3.8-full package.

python3.8 (3.8.9-1) UNRELEASED; urgency=medium

  * Python 3.8.9 release.

python3.8 (3.8.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Python 3.8.7 release.

python3.8 (3.8.7~rc1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Python 3.8.7 release candidate 1.
  * Bump standards and debhelper versions.
  * Don't expect the test_ttk_textonly test to pass.
  * Add python3-tk test dependency for the failing-tests* autopkg tests.
  * Update symbols files.

python3.8 (3.8.6-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Python 3.8.6 release.

python3.8 (3.8.6~rc1-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Python 3.8.6 release candidate 1.

python3.8 (3.8.5-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Don't build with system mpdecimal, which will be updated to 2.5,
    not compatible with Python 3.8.

python3.8 (3.8.5-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Python 3.8.5 release.
    - Fix issue 41295, regression on __setattr__ in multiinheritance with
       metaclasses. Closes: #965069.

 -- Matthias Klose <email address hidden> Wed, 02 Jun 2021 12:49:15 +0200