Notices by Adam Williamson :fedora: (adamw@fosstodon.org)

@codewiz I actually don't know the underlying reason! It's just one of those things I've never questioned. The immediate 'obvious' reason is that we install Python packages to directories named for the Python minor version - `/usr/lib/python3.11/site-packages` and `/usr/lib64/python3.11/site-packages` for e.g. - but this of course just begs the same question...I guess @hroncok would know, probably.

@codewiz python(abi) is just a sort of expression of the general truth that python packages are built for a specific python minor version. when we go from 3.11 to 3.12 everything has to be rebuilt; that dependency exists to conveniently codify that.

@codewiz
Great news! Yeah, 6.5 actually doesn't boot to a desktop on my laptop at all. That does sometimes happen with these early early snapshots. I didn't get around to reporting it yet, I'll do it when I'm back from PTO if it isn't fixed...

@codewiz
Cool! Note we *just* merged python 3.12 so there might possibly be a few issues related to that lurking, but all the big stuff should be fine.