It seems to me like Python 3.8 has broken a LOT of stuff, violating semantic versioning. Like, for example, RealSense cameras don't work anymore.
Python is "broken" in that the C API does not maintain backwards compatibility. (See https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0620/#the-c-api-blocks-c... for a proposed solution.)
RealSense is "broken" in that they don't provide builds for all the versions of Python their users use. But that's because "Officially, Librealsense is only currently supported up to Ubuntu 18.04 LTS"
Perhaps also your process is "broken" for depending only on pre-compiled builds; the published solution is to build from source. https://github.com/IntelRealSense/librealsense/issues/6296#i... says it's possible. Or "broken" for using an unsupported environment and expecting it will work.
Software in general is broken. It's amazing that it works as well as it does.
I tried that, it didn't work, and they keep closing issues about it instead of addressing it. They are a company with a 200B market cap, and it's already 5 months since the release of 20.04 and they still can't get their drivers straight.
People like me want to use their hardware. I don't have time to be debugging their drivers -- I have other work to do. I don't think it's unreasonable ask for them to support the latest LTS release of the most common Linux distribution in a timely manner with pre-compiled binaries that just work, in return for the $179 that I and tens of thousands of others paid for the device.
This isn't some open source community software that I'd be glad to pitch in some time and help debug. This is a driver for a device that I paid a for-profit company for and I expect timely support especially for an exceedingly common OS that I use.
Are you really just complaining about the version numbering? Ok, let's say they follow semantic versioning, and instead of calling it 3.8 they called it 4.0.
The package you use would still be broken.
Now what do you do?
Why don't you install Python 3.7 yourself and pip install the pre-built binary?