On Sunday, July 7, 2019 6:13:45 PM EDT Thomas Goirand wrote: > On 7/7/19 5:31 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > > On 07.07.19 16:55, Drew Parsons wrote: > >> On 2019-07-07 22:46, Mo Zhou wrote: > >>> Hi science team, > >>> > >>> By the way, when do we start dropping python2 support? > >>> The upstreams of the whole python scientific computing > >>> stack had already started dropping it. > >> > >> Good question. I think it is on the agenda this cycle, but debian-python > >> will have the call on it. > > > > you can start dropping it now, however please don't drop anything yet with > > reverse dependencies. So leaf packages first. > > > > Matthias > > I'm sorry, but I think I need to contest this. Doing things in order, > first leaf, then go all the way back, will take too long, and this is > IMO unnecessary effort. Older binary packages will anyway stay in the > archive as long as they are needed, and no FTP hint is added (please > correct me if I'm wrong here... but that's what I saw in the past). > > Also, those who aren't doing the work of switching to Py2 will need to > be kicked away anyway. > > You've done some pretty destructive transitions yourself for other > stuff, so why should we bother on this simple case? > > Last, a 2 years cycle to get rid of all traces of Python 2 *will* take > some time, maybe more than we can even think of, so we'd better take > some shortcuts if we can.
Are you 100% certain that there isn't some small subset of python2 packages we will end up needing for bullseye? If not, this is not a good suggestion. Scott K