Distro versions and Python versions

[bennuttall]

piwheels builds wheels for Python versions in versions of Debian.

This issue states the current status of each Debian version in piwheels, and will be updated as things change.

Debian version	Python version	Status	EOL
Jessie	3.4	🏁 end-of-life	30 June 2020
Stretch	3.5	🏁 end-of-life	1 July 2022
Buster	3.7	🏁 end-of-life	30 June 2024
Bullseye	3.9	✔️ building	31 August 2026
Bookworm	3.11	✔️ building	30 June 2028
Trixie	3.13	✔️ building	August 2030

[bennuttall]

Bullseye wheels have been working through the backlog for the last couple of weeks - we've cleared the backlog and they're now up-to-date and will continue to build from now on. 🥳

[atharvai]

Any roadmap for Python 3.10? I run HomeAssistant which uses numpy and compiling numpy on Raspberry Pi 2B is slow but also doesn't finish. a pre-built wheel for armv7l would be great to use

[bennuttall]

We only build for versions of Python in Debian releases. The next Debian release is in the summer, so we'll start building for that once it's released, with whatever version of Python it comes with, presumably 3.10: https://packages.debian.org/bookworm/python3

[okhiroyuki]

@bennuttall
Debian 12 is scheduled for release on June 10. With the release of Debian 12, will piwheels start building Python 3.11?

Release date

We plan to release on 2023-06-10.

If you want to celebrate it, please consider attending a Debian
release party, or hosting your own! See
https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyBookworm for more information.
(Note: the release process typically takes the whole day and the
release isn't done until the early hours of Sunday UTC.)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2023/04/msg00007.html?ref=news.itsfoss.com

[bennuttall]

Of course

[dequis]

Hi! Approximately when can we expect bookworm packages to be available?

Thank you for piwheels <3

[bennuttall]

Waiting on some work on the backend to support multi-digit Python versions 😆 piwheels/piwheels#288 hopefully not too much longer before we can get that done

[holta]

News about Raspberry Pi OS 13 "Trixie" has emerged in recent days, just FYI:

https://forums.raspberrypi.com/viewtopic.php?t=389477

[bennuttall]

Thanks! We will aim to start building for Trixie soon. But need to wait for current maintenance work to finish. See #530.

[MichaIng]

How long is building wheels for Bullseye/Python 3.9 planned? At first I thought it was stopped already, since I see this for a number of them:

But then I see a very recent cryptography Bullseye/Python 3.9 build, where instead one for Python 3.11 has this "unexpected error":

The dash points to an empty log file, so looks like the build failed on a very early level.