Re: Intent to orphan Python 2

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On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 12:57:19 -0400, you wrote:

>On 03/23/2018 07:23 AM, Petr Viktorin wrote:
>> In case no one steps up, we'd like to start dropping Python 2 support
>> from dependent packages *now*, starting with ported libraries on whose
>> python2 version nothing in Fedora depends. (We keep a list of those at
>> [1].)
>
>I'm +1 to the idea of dropping Python 2 support in general, but I'm not
>sure we should really do it gradually (which is what would effectively
>happen if some packagers start dropping now and others later, and others
>not at all). It seems to me like it'd be cleaner to have a release note
>on Fedora 30 that's just "Python 2 support dropped" and do it all at
>once. Thoughts?

It's not just all the Python 2 code that is packaged in Fedora though,
but also all the Python 2 code people are running on their machines.

By gradually (or sooner than Fedora 30) getting rid of all the
libraries and other Python 2 stuff it at least gives the option for
those people who get surprised to fix things before the Python
interpreter itself goes EOL and doesn't get security fixes.
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