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Originally Posted by PeterT
As others have pointed out the true issue here is NOT Linux support; rather it's the insistence by repository maintainers to modify calibre and change its dependencies to using the system supplied python and other components, as opposed to keeping to calibre as designed / tested / supported by Kovid.
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Originally Posted by Ambassador Dave
PeterT, I don't disagree with you, however, I do think it's a bit more nuanced than what you wrote.
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Sometimes there are troubles, like this one. Kovid may never update Python in his binary packages again. Yet I noticed that kiwidude said version 3.10 is the current Windows packaged version while Kovid lists 3.11.5 in his "up-to-date list of dependencies that the official calibre binaries are bundled with". 3.12 may or may not come soon, however calibre does appear to work fine with it.
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FWIW: Kovid said in
this bug report about a problem in Python 3.11 involving SSL certificate storage (emphasis mine):
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... or wait till the version of python used in calibre is updated to 3.12 which is the earliest version of python with the fix, but python 3.12 has many other incompatibilities so it wont be anytime soon.
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For example, there are at least two usages of "key_file" in calibre 7.12, one in the https section of the content server and one in the code used for metadata downloading. I don't know what the other incompatibilities are.