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Re: Python 2 support for Bullseye

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Hi Moritz!

On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 08:04:56PM +0200, 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.

Small correction: s/qtwebkit/qtwebengine/.

QtWebEngine bundles Chromium whose upstream is actively working on
Python 3 port [1]. Most probably it won't be ready in time for Bullseye,
but for Bookworm it should be ready (or rather, Qt WebEngine 6 will
use Python 3, and we will remove Qt WebEngine 5).

There are also patches from the FreeBSD maintainer [2], but they are huge
(2200 lines in total) and the author reports that they cause some JS errors,
so I would better not apply them and wait for an official port.

Qt WebEngine in Debian is not supported from security point of view anyway,
so I think it should be fine to let it use Python 2 in Bullseye.

[1]: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1112471
[2]: https://mail.kde.org/pipermail/distributions/2020-September/000860.html

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Dmitry Shachnev

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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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