Current failures on x86_64, x86_64-musl, aarch64:

• sagemath

Pending removals:

• onboard
• python3-Bottleneck
• python3-axolotl
• python3-axolotl-curve25519
• python3-envdir
• python3-iwlib
• thefuck

sagemath is also expected to break sagemath/sage#40890

I pulled a patch from a PR mentioned in that long issue. Sagemath builds, although I cannot guarantee more than that. We should end good to push this in a few days.

Waiting a week is not viable because the infrastructure team intends to undertake some work next week that would obstruct (or be obstructed by) a long Python rebuild. After that, we are getting into the holidays, and people (including me) will be getting busier with personal commitments.

If the sagemath patch is not sufficient to avoid runtime breakage but the RC cycle is short and the update is trivial, somebody can submit the a bump not long after (or maybe before!) the Python update finishes building. If the cycle lags unexpectedly or the update is non-trivial, I do not wish to further delay a time-consuming process for a single package that opts to be too closely coupled to cpython internals.

Fair enough. I'll pull what you did and test, thanks.

Pending removals:
* python3-iwlib

This is actually in use for people using Qtile and widget Wlan https://docs.qtile.org/en/stable/manual/ref/widgets.html#wlan

It would be better to file an upstream issue at https://github.com/qtile/qtile/issues to note that they rely a package that hasn't been touched in six years and doesn't build on musl.

In the meantime,

python3 -m venv --system-site-packages /usr/local/qtile
/usr/local/qtile/bin/pip install iwlib
/usr/local/qtile/bin/python3 /usr/bin/qtile

should restore missing functionality.