Add notes about python3 support. (trunk r14564)

svn path=/main/branches/2.1.7/; revision=14565

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ portage-2.1.7
 * Add --accept-properties option for emerge which allows you to use
   --accept-properties=-interactive in order to temporarily exclude
   interactive updates.
+* Add support for Python 3.0. At least Python 2.6 is now required in order to
+  support the new syntax which is used by Python 3.0.
 
 portage-2.1.6
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diff --git a/RELEASE-NOTES b/RELEASE-NOTES
index 0efdf9b97832642ca54f62bb26f2e46d00baf837..745437ffe02ff679adf4e1897b64482c4a83774e 100644 (file)
--- a/RELEASE-NOTES
+++ b/RELEASE-NOTES
@@ -7,6 +7,10 @@ portage-2.1.7
   updated when necessary. In order to ensure that all packages are updated
   when possible, you must now specify the -u/--update option. See bug #275945
   for the rationale behind this change.
+* If using python3, you may notice that some types of program output which
+  require a tty device (like the wget progress bar) will be disabled. This
+  is due to an upstream python issue: http://bugs.python.org/issue5380. See
+  bug #287648 for more information.
 
 portage-2.1.6.12
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