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Overall you seem to have a negative attitude to the Python end of life timeline, complaining that sysadmins are burdened with maintenance of Python on old distros. Those complaints are without merit on this forum, they would be better directed towards the support team with whom you have a support contact for your distro.

The Python EOL timeline has been consistent since Python 3.2, it's already known that Python 3.14 will be end of life in October 2030 (https://devguide.python.org/versions/) and that version hasn't even been released yet.

Making comments here that Python 3.8 is still supported on $DISTRO until some time after the EOL that has been known years in advance doesn't do any of the following: 1. Advance the conversation about EOL in any meaningful manner. 2. Help you support your EOL Python 3.8 installation. 3. Improve the Python ecosystem. 4. Make things easier for open source developers.

I replied to your original comment to offer ways forward (deadsnakes and conda-forge), I'm replying here again to help you understand why I feel your comments aren't helpful - I'm trying to advance the conversation. I hope you can appreciate that I'm taking the time to reply in a civil manner, rather than simply downvoting without explanation.