Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder7.news.weretis.net!news.mixmin.net!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Scott Kitterman Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.python Subject: Re: Re: dropping python2 [was Re: scientific python stack transitions] Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 02:50:01 +0200 Message-ID: References:

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<20190716152141.GQ1715@belkar.wrar.name> <287f40ae-20c0-a320-ab27-f91b6431523b@debian.org> Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.python:11484 On July 16, 2019 3:42:47 PM UTC, Matthias Klose wrote: >On 16=2E07=2E19 17:31, Julien Puydt wrote: >> Le 16/07/2019 =C3=A0 17:21, Andrey Rahmatullin a =C3=A9crit=C2=A0: >>> Python 2 is included in buster and so will be supported for several >>> years=2E >>> >>=20 >> The starting point of the thread was : >> 1=2E Ok, buster has Python 2 so even if upstream drops it, we will >still >> support it for the years to come for our users ; >> 2=2E but the next stable will come out after upstream has EOL-ed Python >2, >> so we must kick it out as soon as possible from testing+unstable, > >> because there's no way we'll support Python 2 in that next stable! > >no, that's your interpretation, not mine=2E If an important enough >application >still needs it, we should ship it=2E I completely agree=2E The reason I put in for a tracker is to make it eas= ier to see where people can focus to start burning down the stack=2E Not b= ecause I am confident we'll get there this cycle=2E Scott K