On Sat, 2019-12-07 at 23:46 +0000, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I won't, but I think you have it backwards. Until changes like this > are made, python2 can't be removed. Your approach leaves us with a > Catch 22.
Thanks. Part of the reason for my reluctance is I don't understand the haste in removing Python2. It will wither and die anyway in it's own time, but why is it necessary to speed that process up? As the fdb maintainer I agree it would be nice to have just one version to support, but I am also a fdb user. For a user it creates a lot of urgent work. I (I suspect like a lot of sysadmin's who use python as an alternative to bash) have accumulated a lot of python2 scripts over the decades. When I touch one I convert it to python3, but it's a slow process. I can't see any good reason to speed it up, and it doesn't help python3 is worse than python2 as a bash replacement. Now you are forcing me to speed that process up. If I thought I was an outlier then c'est la vie I guess, but my gut feeling is I am not, and there have been comments made in passing on debian-devel that back that up. There hasn't been much discussion so far, but when it happens I suspect there is going to be a lot of push back. Thus my wait and see attitude. In the mean time if maintaining Python2 is too much of a burden you could always orphan it.
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