Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-16 Thread Scott Kitterman
On September 16, 2019 6:21:42 PM UTC, Jonathan Carter wrote: >On 2019/09/12 18:30, Mo Zhou wrote: >> Agreed. there are already python2 forks such as: >> https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon >> >> It may sound funny but I don't hope any python2 stuff get back with >> a new name after the py

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-16 Thread Jonathan Carter
On 2019/09/12 18:30, Mo Zhou wrote: > Agreed. there are already python2 forks such as: > https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon > > It may sound funny but I don't hope any python2 stuff get back with > a new name after the python2 removal. But, it could happen if some > people is willing to supp

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-14 Thread Drew Parsons
On 2019-09-12 22:46, Drew Parsons wrote: https://python3statement.org/ is a site documenting the projects which are supporting the policy of dropping Python2 to keep Python3 only. The site is designed for python packages specifically, to have only Python3 supported by end of 2020. But it seems

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-12 Thread Andrey Rahmatullin
On Thu, Sep 12, 2019 at 09:30:09AM -0700, Mo Zhou wrote: > How should Debian react if someone submitted an ITP for python2 > forks, such as the tauthon above? "Go ahead but don't interfere with other packages, including the Python 3 interpreter and the Python 3 modules, and we won't maintain tautho

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-12 Thread Mo Zhou
On 2019-09-12 16:22, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 12, Alf Gaida wrote: > >> It doesn't really matter. In fact python2 is dead for years, if we >> start now to make a plan we are years to late. The timeframe is _now:. > Dead for who? As long as somebody will be interested in maintaining > python2

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-12 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Sep 12, Alf Gaida wrote: > It doesn't really matter. In fact python2 is dead for years, if we > start now to make a plan we are years to late. The timeframe is _now:. Dead for who? As long as somebody will be interested in maintaining python2 it will not be dead. I maintain some packages whic

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-12 Thread Paul Gevers
Hi, On 12-09-2019 17:01, Ian Jackson wrote: > But we need to be clear what's going on and communicate early. Yes, not on the front page, but there is (first bullet): https://www.debian.org/releases/buster/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#deprecated-components Paul signature.asc Des

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-12 Thread Alf Gaida
On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 16:01:54 +0100 Ian Jackson wrote: > That statement is a *pledge* to drop support for python2 by the end of > 2020. Have we in fact made such a pledge ? I think I may have missed > the memo that python2 would be removed from bullseye. > ""He's dead, Jim" (Doctor Leonard McCo

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-12 Thread Matthias Klose
On 12.09.19 17:01, Ian Jackson wrote: Drew Parsons writes ("should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?"): https://python3statement.org/ is a site documenting the projects which are supporting the policy of dropping Python2 to keep Python3 only. That statement is

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-12 Thread Mo Zhou
Hi Drew, https://release.debian.org/transitions/html/python2-rm.html Given the current progress it looks not easy to make a promise. If some upstream happen to lag behind the schedule of python3 migration, we'll just stuck there for a while. On 2019-09-12 14:46, Drew Parsons wrote: > https://pyt

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-12 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 16:14 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Jim Popovitch writes ("Re: should Debian add itself to > https://python3statement.org ?"): > > On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 16:01 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Drew Parsons writes ("should Debian add itself to

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Jim Popovitch writes ("Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?"): > On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 16:01 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Drew Parsons writes ("should Debian add itself to > > https://python3statement.org ?"): > > > https:/

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-12 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Thu, 2019-09-12 at 16:01 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Drew Parsons writes ("should Debian add itself to > https://python3statement.org ?"): > > https://python3statement.org/ is a site documenting the projects which > > are supporting the policy of dropping

Re: should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-12 Thread Ian Jackson
Drew Parsons writes ("should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?"): > https://python3statement.org/ is a site documenting the projects which > are supporting the policy of dropping Python2 to keep Python3 only. That statement is a *pledge* to drop support for py

should Debian add itself to https://python3statement.org ?

2019-09-12 Thread Drew Parsons
https://python3statement.org/ is a site documenting the projects which are supporting the policy of dropping Python2 to keep Python3 only. The site is designed for python packages specifically, to have only Python3 supported by end of 2020. But it seems to me it would be in the spirit of the