Path: csiph.com!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Moritz Muehlenhoff Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Python 2 support for Bullseye Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 21:00:01 +0200 Message-ID: References: X-Original-To: Dmitry Shachnev X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-python-request@lists.debian.org Fri Oct 16 18:51:09 2020 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.52 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, FOURLA=0.1, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, MURPHY_DRUGS_REL8=0.02, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, SARE_MLH_Stock10=1.66] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -4.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2) X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/18713 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20201016185054.r45n2n5tw2q2lba7@inutil.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 28 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Original-Cc: debian-python@lists.debian.org X-Original-Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 20:50:55 +0200 X-Original-Message-ID: <20201016185054.r45n2n5tw2q2lba7@inutil.org> X-Original-References: <20201016180456.GA21493@pisco.westfalen.local> <20201016183609.GB468450@mitya57.me> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:12953 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