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 ma

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 th

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 ma

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 foun

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 r

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 Python2 usage within the distributi

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 >> drop Python2 for the

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 too many issues wi

MBF for deprecating Python2 usage

2017-08-03 Thread Matthias Klose
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 many issues with packages. For now we identified some categories which need f