RFC: retiring python-django4.2 from Rawhide

[Michel Lind]

Dear all,

Unless someone objects, I plan to retire python-django4.2 from Rawhide
next week.

Tests currently fail:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2374048

and Django upstream don't plan to support Python 3.14 on versions older
than 5.2 (the current LTS)

https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/35844

Building Django 4.2 without tests just hide the issue, as they will
cause downstream builds to fail; these packages will need to be patched
to work with Django 5.2 if they have not.

Django 4.2 itself is otherwise still supported until 2026, so I don't
plan to retire it from any other branch.

Best regards,

[Michel Lind]

On Fri, 2025-07-11 at 15:57 -0500, Michel Lind wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Unless someone objects, I plan to retire python-django4.2 from
> Rawhide
> next week.
>
> Tests currently fail:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=2374048
>
> and Django upstream don't plan to support Python 3.14 on versions
> older
> than 5.2 (the current LTS)
>
> https://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/35844
>
> Building Django 4.2 without tests just hide the issue, as they will
> cause downstream builds to fail; these packages will need to be
> patched
> to work with Django 5.2 if they have not.
>
> Django 4.2 itself is otherwise still supported until 2026, so I don't
> plan to retire it from any other branch.

Looks like the blast radius should be very minimal; I'll go ahead and
retire.

mailman-web is a known issue and is a package I comaintain; ara - looks
like upstream was planning to bump in April 2024 after Django 3.2 goes
EOL and... forgot. I'll follow up there.

https://github.com/ansible-community/ara/blob/0af7a7e43577fe6c3df364f33f3a90...

$ fedrq-pydeps-verbose.sh django | grep '< 4'
+ fedrq whatrequires 'python3dist(django)' -F multiline:source,requires
+ grep 'python3dist(django)'
ara : (python3dist(django) < 4.3~~ with python3dist(django) >= 3.2)
python-mailman-web : (python3dist(django) < 4.3~~ with
python3dist(django) >= 4)

$ fedrq-pydeps-verbose.sh django | grep '< 5'
+ fedrq whatrequires 'python3dist(django)' -F multiline:source,requires
+ grep 'python3dist(django)'
python-django-mailman3 : (python3dist(django) < 5.3~~ with
python3dist(django) >= 4.2)
python-hyperkitty : (python3dist(django) < 5.3~~ with
python3dist(django) >= 4.2)
python-postorius : (python3dist(django) < 5.3~~ with
python3dist(django) >= 4.2)

Best regards,