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| From | Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | linux.debian.maint.python |
| Subject | Re: Python 2 support for Bullseye |
| Date | 2020-10-16 21:00 +0200 |
| Message-ID | <B0D7j-oy-1@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink) |
| References | <B0CkW-7y-7@gated-at.bofh.it> <B0CNX-hV-3@gated-at.bofh.it> |
| Organization | linux.* mail to news gateway |
On Fri, Oct 16, 2020 at 09:36:09PM +0300, Dmitry Shachnev wrote:
> 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/.
Ack, that one, they keep changing names to often :-)
> 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.
Definitely.
> 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.
Yeah, given that it's only at build time for sources we control it's entirely
fine.
Cheers,
Moritz
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Re: Python 2 support for Bullseye Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2020-10-16 20:40 +0200
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Re: Python 2 support for Bullseye Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org> - 2020-10-16 21:00 +0200
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