Bump Ubuntu (24.04) and Python (3.12) versions

[puneetmatharu]

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[jondea]

I think this will silently update the Python version because we just use the default with the OS, so may need some tweaking of build-wheel.sh (and some other places)

[puneetmatharu]

I think this will silently update the Python version because we just use the default with the OS, so may need some tweaking of build-wheel.sh (and some other places)

Ah! Good point. I'll pass PYTHON_VERSION to Dockerfile via dockerize.sh and control the Python version (with the necessary additional Dockerfile adjustments)

That was naive of me. Ubuntu 24.04 doesn't provide Python 3.10 via apt-get so we might just have to bump to 3.12 with this change too... so we very likely won't be able to get this change in for the Dec release.

[nSircombe]

won't be able to get this change in for the Dec release.
May be better to hold 'til the new year - this would show up as a version change for every deb and python package in the build?

[puneetmatharu]

May be better to hold 'til the new year - this would show up as a version change for every deb and python package in the build?

Yeah, I agree. In testing I found a lot of package updates:

Removed 31 packages, added 41 packages, changed 5 packages

Better off handling this in the new year...

[nSircombe]

Thanks for taking a look. That's actually not as much as I thought, but still quite a delta!

[puneetmatharu]

Thanks for taking a look. That's actually not as much as I thought, but still quite a delta!

Admittedly, if we wanted, I could actually get that knocked out in a day... I think a lot of those additions/deletions are just gonna be the same package but just for a different distribution so the licenses are gonna quite easy to identify. Up to you...