On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 11:58:57AM +0200, Petr Viktorin wrote: > And if you read the original mail to the end, you'll find that our > position is not as black-and-white as it might look from the Subject > line. > As Python SIG we maintain old Python versions like 2.6 or 3.3 > *today* – but just for developers who need to test backwards > compatibility of their upstream libraries; we don't want to see them > used as a base for Fedora packages. Why? To make sure Fedora > packages work with modern Python, and to have only one > time-sensitive place to concentrate on when a critical security fix > comes. We want to put Python 2.7 in the same situation.
Sorry I'm a late to this thread. Have you considered making the "legacy" python 2.7 a module? This would provide a clear way to define the lifecycle and service level expectations. -- Matthew Miller <mat...@fedoraproject.org> Fedora Project Leader _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org
