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Re: Python2 packages for bullseye

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On 7/9/20 1:45 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Thursday, July 9, 2020 7:21:45 AM EDT Matthias Klose wrote:
>> The removal of packages still depending on Python2 looks good [1], however
>> we have a bunch of packages that still require Python2, and where
>> maintainers explicitly asked to keep those in the distro [2].  Among those
>> are pypy and pypy3 which need Python2 for bootstrapping.  I'm going to keep
>> the Python2 packages for bullseye, and having those just as build
>> dependencies shouldn't really effect any end-user.  A different thing might
>> be the Python2 usage at runtime, however I'm not very passionate to remove
>> all of those packages.
>>
>> What still should be done for bullseye is the removal of the unversioned
>> python. I'm removing the packages python-minimal, python, python-dev,
>> python-dbg, python-doc, and stop shipping the /usr/bin/python symlink, so
>> that packages are required to either use python2 or python3 explicitly. 
>> Planning that change for late August / early September.  That should give
>> plenty of time to address any unversioned python usage before the release
>> freeze.
> 
> Are you going to keep python-setuptools?  If you do, it seems likely we'll be 
> able to keep pip and virtualenv so they support running python2 in a 
> virtualenv in bullseye, which seems the best way to do it for those that need 
> to.

yes, that would be a sensible thing to do.

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Python2 packages for bullseye Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2020-07-09 13:30 +0200
  Re: Python2 packages for bullseye Scott Kitterman <debian@kitterman.com> - 2020-07-09 13:50 +0200
    Re: Python2 packages for bullseye Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2020-07-09 15:10 +0200

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