Oh, that’s not a Podman issue - the Debian world is like RHEL I’m being conservative about major version upgrades. They’re still shipping Python 3.10 and 3.11,

Oh, that’s not a Podman issue - the Debian world is like RHEL I’m being conservative about major version upgrades. They’re still shipping Python 3.10 and 3.11, too, despite 3.12 having been released and 3.13 waiting in the wings. The build from source instructions work and you can easily maintain your own back ports / PPAs for things like that as the standard mechanism for major upgrades which the core distribution doesn’t want to commit to supporting. Usually you can simply take the updated package definition from the unstable repository and build that, and a quick search suggests many people are doing just that.