There is a new pull request by leahneukirchen against master on the void-packages repository

https://github.com/leahneukirchen/void-packages python38
https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/15623

[WIP] Python 3.8
This huge PR tries to bump all packages that either shlib-require
libpython3.6m.so.1.0 or put files into /usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages.

Broken packages (on x86_64):

- [ ] attic -> upstream dead, remove?
- [ ] blender -> update to 2.80
- [ ] eolie
- [ ] fontforge
- [ ] freecad
- [ ] gst1-python
- [ ] libopenshot
- [ ] libpeas
- [ ] nagstamon
- [ ] paraview
- [ ] pockyt
- [ ] scudcloud
- [ ] torbrowser-launcher
- [ ] unknown-horizons
- [ ] vapoursynth
- [ ] variety
- [ ] kdevelop-python
- [ ] krita: SHA256 mismatch
- [ ] shiboken
- [ ] renderdoc

Untested:

- [ ] libreoffice


A patch file from https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/pull/15623.patch is attached