On Tue, Dec 17, 2019 at 01:04:43PM +0100, Kevin Kofler wrote: > Neal Gompa wrote: > > You've been saying this a lot lately, and this isn't actually backed > > up by reality. > > > > Debian *is* dropping Python 2 support. > > It was Adam Williamson who claimed that Debian would still support Python 2. > I neglected to verify that claim, sorry for that. > > But this means that his argument that users who need Python 2 should just > switch to Debian is null and void. > > So far, Fedora has always been one of the few distributions willing to ship > legacy compatibility libraries to keep software working. See GTK+ 1, Qt 3, > etc. (Some of it, such as Qt 3, was partly my own work, some of it, such as > GTK+ 1, has been entirely done by other volunteers.) With the Python 2 > policy, and also with the package deprecation process that was introduced > recently, Fedora is making a radical U-turn, which will make it much less > useful for end users. And there is no real alternative to switch to. Debian > is clearly not one. > > Maintainers need to realize that there is lots of niche software out there > that is effectively unmaintained (and thus will never get ported to Python 3 > etc.), but that works, fulfills some task, and has no more recent > alternative available. What should people relying on such software do?
Either figure out a way to get people to maintain the software, or
figure out a way to get people to develop a replacement, or keep using
the unmaintained software on equally unmaintained older versions of
operating systems that it will run on.
Sorry for the bluntness, but, well...
G'luck,
Peter
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