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Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with no Python 3 support upstream

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Hi Thomas and Python Team,

Thomas Goirand <zigo@debian.org> writes:

> For example, today I looked into removing Python 2 from python-cogent.
> Running sixer on all files lead to a huge log of problems to solve by
> hand. There's no upstream support for Python 3 on that one.
>
> For this kind of package, I see no way out except:
> - Upstream works on Python 3 support
> - Someone in Debian makes the effort
>
> But in both cases, it's going to take a very long time. Do we really
> want to get stuck on these packages for like forever, or would it feel
> ok to raise the severity to serious, so that the package gets
> auto-removed and then we can work on removing Python 2 from its
> dependencies?

It seems to me that a fair and conservative solution is to send an
announcement once a month that all Python 2 packages will have an RC bug
filed against them on 1 January 2020.  I work on the Calibre package,
and depend on it for my daily work.  I do not believe that its reverse
deps should be removed before 1 Jan 2020.

As far as the maximum number of announcements, how about: the first
announcement ASAP, the second one 1 Nov, then 1 Dec.  Lets CC this
announcement to devel, -python, -med, and any other teams with a
significant number of Python packages.

The issue is similar to global warming.  People will hide their head in
the sand singing "nah nah nah, it's not real, I don't have to deal with
it" until a tipping point occurs.

Honestly part of me wonders if RedHat/IBM is going to maintain Python 2,
like they did with Java.

  https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2018/09/24/the-future-of-java-and-openjdk-updates-without-oracle-support

Barring that hypothetical possibility, I still think the right thing to
do is file RC bugs the 1 of January.  What happens then?  My guess is
upstreams start containerising their py2 software and someone will write
a helper script like py2-zombie-flatpack.


Cheers,
Nicholas

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Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with no Python 3 support upstream Nicholas D Steeves <nsteeves@gmail.com> - 2019-10-14 05:50 +0200
  Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with  no Python 3 support upstream Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> - 2019-10-14 09:20 +0200
    Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with  no Python 3 support upstream Gregor Riepl <onitake@gmail.com> - 2019-10-14 20:20 +0200
      Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages  with no Python 3 support upstream Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> - 2019-10-14 21:30 +0200
    Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with  no Python 3 support upstream Gregor Riepl <onitake@gmail.com> - 2019-10-14 20:30 +0200
      Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages  with no Python 3 support upstream Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org> - 2019-10-14 21:30 +0200
  Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with  no Python 3 support upstream Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz> - 2019-10-14 23:30 +0200
    Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with  no Python 3 support upstream Craig Small <csmall@debian.org> - 2019-10-15 05:00 +0200
    Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with  no Python 3 support upstream Craig Small <csmall@dropbear.xyz> - 2019-10-15 05:20 +0200
      Re: Raising severity to serious for some Python 2 leaf packages with  no Python 3 support upstream Sandro Tosi <morph@debian.org> - 2019-10-15 19:10 +0200

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