Request to join DPMT

[Christoph Mathys]

Hi,

I'd like to join DPMT to maintain my Python modules mercurial-keyring 
and mercurial-keyring-utils.


I've read and accept policy.rst.

My salsa login is: eraserix-guest

How does Debian support python2.7 during 2020-01-01 .. ~2022?

[Tobias Deiminger]

Dear DDs,

Python 2 upstream support has ended 2020-01-01. As python2.7 is still in 
buster repositories, it's somehow supported by Debian at least until 
buster EOL ~2022.


Is there a Debian strategy for what that support actually means? I'm 
asking for the interpreter / standard library in particular.
Will Debian developers pick and apply security/bugfix patches from the 
broader community?

Or will they even develop patches on their own?
Or not that much, besides keeping runtime and reverse dependencies 
buildable?


The Debian way for >= bullseye is quite clear from reading this list, 
but I couldn't find much about the "dead upstream" period in buster.


Thanks for all your work,
Tobias