On 22/11/2022 19:32:17+0100, Alexander Kanavin wrote: > On Tue, 22 Nov 2022 at 19:14, Richard Purdie > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Rightly or wrongly, this patch will cause large amounts of pain for > > some portion of our userbase and I'm not sure we have enough > > justification to do that. That pain wouldn't likely be realised for > > some time either :/. > > I have to point out that meta-python2 hasn't even received a > compatibility update for langsdale: > https://git.openembedded.org/meta-python2 > > While this might be 'too soon' to conclude that python2 is truly dead, > maybe a year (or two, or three) from now it won't be. Fedora has > already made the switch, Debian will follow, and honestly, I just > can't muster any sympathy for python2 users anymore. You can't push > back paying off technical debt forever and expect others to > accommodate you. > > Let me propose this: a PACKAGECONFIG for the python recipe that adds > and installs the symlink in a dedicated package. We can keep it off > for now, but somewhere down the line we could revisit that against > established practice and what PEPs say then. >
I actually like the idea of having a python-is-python3 package so that affected recipes could simply add it to their dependencies. That would make it explicit that python is not python2. > Alex > > > -- Alexandre Belloni, co-owner and COO, Bootlin Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering https://bootlin.com
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