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Re: Python 2 support for Bullseye

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On 10/16/20 8:04 PM, Moritz Mühlenhoff wrote:
> There will be few core packages build-depending on Python 2 (for tests
> or building) which won't be ready for Python 3 for Bullseye (Chromium,
> qtwebkit and IIRC also Pypy), but those only need Python 2 (and a very
> small set of support packages like setuptools/jinja) to build and
> run their tests.
> 
> Apart from those there's only a handful of packages still in testing
> which have a run time dependency on Python 2 packages (and most are
> actively being worked on (e.g. Xen)).
> 
> All packages (and their test suites) shipped in Debian are trusted
> anyway (and consequently don't need any kind of updates during the
> bullseye cycle), so a lack of updates/upstream EOL doesn't matter.
> 
> As such, I'd propose to include Python 2 (plus the small set of
> support packages) in Bullseye

ok. I think you should explicitly name all these packages.

> but exempt it from support (and then
> remove it for good after the Bullseye release):

not ok. That would mean removing pypy3 from the archive as well.  If you don't
want to support Python2, then why do you care about it's removal for bullseye+1?

> - Mark src:python (plus related support packages) as unsupported in
>   debian-security-support and with a README.Debian in the source
>   package (and given how prominent Python is, also in the release notes)

That should list the binary packages, there's no src:python package.

> - Bump the severity of the few remaining packages in testing to RC
>   state (and force them out testing if auto removals were blocked
>   for some reason)

See above, I think it's unfriendly to push out pypy3.

Matthias

Thread

Python 2 support for Bullseye Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2020-10-16 20:10 +0200
  Re: Python 2 support for Bullseye Matthias Klose <doko@debian.org> - 2020-10-16 20:30 +0200
    Re: Python 2 support for Bullseye Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2020-10-16 20:40 +0200
      Re: Python 2 support for Bullseye Stefano Rivera <stefanor@debian.org> - 2020-12-11 19:10 +0100
    Re: Python 2 support for Bullseye Moritz Mühlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2020-11-15 19:10 +0100
  Re: Python 2 support for Bullseye Dmitry Shachnev <mitya57@debian.org> - 2020-10-16 20:40 +0200
    Re: Python 2 support for Bullseye Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2020-10-16 21:00 +0200

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