ports/lang major version updates outside of OS version updates

[Roger Marquis]

>> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 11:18:50PM +0200, Dima Pasechnik wrote:
>>> So there is more "software bureaucracy" here than just applying one patch.

You sure about that Dima?  Whether one or several the patching doesn't
appear to be complicated or difficult to maintain.

> On Fri, Apr 12, 2019 at 02:58:22PM -0700, Steve Kargl wrote:
> For those people following along in the mailing list, Dima
> sent me a private reply that took this thread off the list.
> I am done trying to help fix the python ports.

Thanks for the good work Steve.

Many of us are still wondering why this change was made outside of a
major OS version update.  Wouldn't that have prevented the build bug
which started this thread?

Considering the incompatibilities between python 2.X and 3.x (which
Guido has admitted was a mistake) please consider this a ports policy
request to require significant lang/* version updates be predicated on
equally significant OS version updates.

Roger Marquis