Re: ✘ Release blockers?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Greg!

On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 16:07:44 -0500
Greg Troxel <address@hidden> wrote:

> I just built the head of git* on NetBSD-8 amd64, and it built and
> passed tests.

Good.  Thanks for the testing.

> * I am carrying a kludge patch for two test python programs that look
> for "python", rather than the value of PYTHON passed in to scons, like
> the built python programs.

Yeah, getting the shebang more flexible will happen shortly after the
next release.  For those distros that can't manage the "python" link
properly.

> I realize that if 'python' happened to be
> the same version that I am using with gpsd,

gpsd does not use python.  Only a few of the clients.

> I wouldn't need this, and
> that python people think this is a feature.  I am mentioning it so
> that what I claim I tested really is what I tested.

Understood.  Known issue for some distros.  

RGDS
GARY
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