On 07/16/2018 11:15 AM, Miro Hrončok wrote: > This is just a reminder that nobody stepped up to maintain Python 2 > after 2020. We still need to start dropping python2 packages. > > What shall we do from here? File a Fedora System Wide Change Proposal > for Fedora 30 that nothing explicitly white-listed to require Python 2 > will be removed from Fedora? Can we even do that?
How would you construct the whitelist? > For context - there are currently 708 leaf packages [1](above). > > Except several tools and applications, those are all modules that > nothing in Fedora depends on. If we remove some, others only required by > them will become leaf-packages as well. > > We also have 1220 py2 only packages out of which plenty are probably > unneeded modules as well, although we don't have the numbers. > > As stated in the above e-mail in March, we are willing to support > python2 for several (small number) of tools or apps. But we will not > support it for 3 thousands of unused, unknown modules. > > Python 2 will EOL in less than 1.5 year. Could we perhaps look at moving python2 and everything that wants to use it into a module? I think that might make it more clear that it's not part of base Fedora and when it goes eol in f32 we drop it? That would take a lot of effort and duplication tho. I don't think we want to drag this out too long... a clear call to drop all python2 in 31 (or I suppose f30) would be helpful and avoid some people dropping something other packages need, etc. kevin
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