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Re: Python 2 support for Bullseye

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From	Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>
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Subject	Re: Python 2 support for Bullseye
Date	Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:00:01 +0200
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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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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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