On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 09:34:16AM -0500, William Breathitt Gray wrote: > On Thu, Dec 05, 2019 at 09:24:26AM -0500, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 5, 2019 at 8:59 AM Jason A. Donenfeld <zx...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > > > > It's quite another to mask random packages that have USE flags to > > > optionally support whatever python 2.7 library. If you're going to > > > last rites these, talk with the maintainer first, and only then, send > > > emails one at a time. Doing that en masse isn't appropriate. > > > > ++ - I have no idea if that happened. For anything USE-controlled it > > would make more sense to file a bug or mask the package-flag combo > > itself. > > > > > > > > On another topic, I'd prefer for python 2.7 not to be removed from > > > gentoo. Tons of code still uses it. > > > > > > > I'm sure a million people would share that preference. I'm not sure > > what the upstream/security status is of 2.7. Obviously to keep it > > around it would need to be reasonably secure, and somebody within > > Gentoo would have to want to maintain it. That's basically the > > criteria for keeping anything like this around. If somebody stepped > > up and said "I'm maintaining 2.7 and here is why it will remain > > secure..." I doubt they'd get a lot of resistance. > > > > -- > > Rich > > If Python 2.7 is EOL upstream then it sounds like upstream will not be > maintaining it any longer; i.e. no more bug fixes nor support. That > means Gentoo would have to maintain its own Python 2.7 fork if it's to > remain in the repository. Naturally, maintaining a Python fork is not > something the Gentoo team is ready to do, so it makes sense to remove > Python 2.7 now that the EOL date is approaching. > > Besides, the Python 2.7 EOL date has been known since 2015, so those > python 2-only packages will have had at least 5 years to migrate to > Python 3. > > William Breathitt Gray >
Wonderful response, William. For the others who are seeking a quick "why? how? when? what?" there are these links: https://pythonclock.org/ https://python3statement.org/ <--- This is a fun one. All the naysayers need to go yell at the projects too! -- Cheers, Aaron
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