Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage

2017-08-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 05:57:01PM -0400, Matthias Klose wrote: > While at DebCamp, Stefano Rivera and I sat down to analyze what needs to be > done > to deprecate Python2 usage within the distribution. It might not be possible > to > drop Python2 for the next release, but there are still too

Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage

2017-08-06 Thread Christian Seiler
Hi Matthias, On 08/03/2017 11:57 PM, Matthias Klose wrote: > It might not be possible to drop Python2 for the next release, Even if all Python-related packages in Debian were compatible with Python3, I don't think it's a good idea to drop Python2 support in Buster, there are still far too many

Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage

2017-08-06 Thread Christian Seiler
On 08/05/2017 07:34 AM, Josh Triplett wrote: > Scott Kitterman wrote: >> Reintroducing /usr/bin/python as a python3 version risks their systems >> for no benefit (since all python3 stuff points to /usr/bin/python3 and >> works fine). Just let it go and don't bring it back. > > Agreed completely.

Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage

2017-08-06 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, Aug 03, 2017 at 05:57:01PM -0400, Matthias Klose wrote: > While at DebCamp, Stefano Rivera and I sat down to analyze what needs to be > done > to deprecate Python2 usage within the distribution. It might not be possible > to > drop Python2 for the next release, but there are still too

Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage

2017-08-04 Thread Josh Triplett
Scott Kitterman wrote: > Reintroducing /usr/bin/python as a python3 version risks their systems > for no benefit (since all python3 stuff points to /usr/bin/python3 and > works fine). Just let it go and don't bring it back. Agreed completely. /usr/bin/python -> python3 in Arch is an endless

Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage

2017-08-04 Thread Zack Weinberg
> I think there should be one release which is not shipping > /usr/bin/python before /usr/bin/python should be reused and pointed > at python (>> 2). This should be good enough to get all scripts > actively converted which are not part of the distribution. > > If that release is buster, we should

Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage

2017-08-04 Thread Scott Kitterman
On August 4, 2017 6:49:23 AM EDT, Matthias Klose wrote: >On 03.08.2017 21:08, ba...@debian.org wrote: >> On Aug 3, 2017, at 17:57, Matthias Klose wrote: >>> >>> While at DebCamp, Stefano Rivera and I sat down to analyze what >needs to be done >>> to deprecate

Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage

2017-08-04 Thread Matthias Klose
On 03.08.2017 21:08, ba...@debian.org wrote: > On Aug 3, 2017, at 17:57, Matthias Klose wrote: >> >> While at DebCamp, Stefano Rivera and I sat down to analyze what needs to be >> done >> to deprecate Python2 usage within the distribution. It might not be >> possible to >>

Re: MBF for deprecating Python2 usage

2017-08-03 Thread barry
On Aug 3, 2017, at 17:57, Matthias Klose wrote: > > While at DebCamp, Stefano Rivera and I sat down to analyze what needs to be > done > to deprecate Python2 usage within the distribution. It might not be possible > to > drop Python2 for the next release, but there are still