[Python-modules-team] Django 1.9

[Brian May]

Sorry for duplicate email, meant to group reply, but forgot. Going to
post a correction to this now.


Barry Warsaw <barry at debian.org> writes:

> I really appreciate all the great work y'all have done to get us on Django
> 1.8.  I was hoping that this would give us Python 3.5 support, but as you
> know, upstream's documentation is incorrect about this, and then there's issue
> 25502 tracking *actual* Python 3.5 support.

I believe the Django in Debian passes all tests under Python 3.5...

> Also, Django 1.9rc1 was released last week and their roadmap says that 1.9
> final should be out possibly by next week (2 weeks after rc1 if no rc2 is
> necessary).  1.9 *will* officially support 3.5.
>
> What's the plan for Django 1.9?

Think we need Django 1.8 in testing first. The is currently a grave bug
against Django, see #802677.
-- 
Brian May <bam at debian.org>